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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 6524

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1988 Regular Session

By Senators Craswell, Vognild, Owen, Smitherman, Bailey and Metcalf

Read first time 1/25/88 and referred to Committee on Education.

AN ACT Relating to population adjustments for naval personnel; and amending RCW 43.62.050.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  Section 43.62.050, chapter 8, Laws of 1965 as last amended by section 131, chapter 151, Laws of 1979 and RCW 43.62.050 are each amended to read as follows:

          The office of financial management shall develop and maintain student enrollment forecasts of Washington schools, including both public and private, elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools, colleges, and universities.  A current report of such forecasts shall be submitted to the standing committees on ways and means of the house and the senate on or before the fifteenth day of November of each even-numbered year.

Armed forces shipboard population, on-base naval group quarter population, and military dependents living in housing under United States navy jurisdiction, shall be determined quarterly by the office of financial management on the first days of January, April, July, and October.  These counts, as conducted by the military installation, shall include only those military personnel and dependents that meet the resident population criteria defined by the federal bureau of the census.  The counts shall be used to increase or decrease the armed forces component of the resident population determinations in the cities of Bremerton and Everett for the purpose of allocating state revenues according to RCW 43.62.030.  Counts on the first day of the quarterly periods commencing with January, April, July, and October shall be used to adjust the total population for the following quarter, in the same manner adjustments are made for population changes due to annexation as specified in RCW 35.13.260 and 35A.14.700.