FINAL BILL REPORT

                  HB 1470

                          C 97 L 91

                     Synopsis As Enacted

Brief Description:  Making appropriations for public works projects.

By Representatives Ogden, Brough, H. Sommers, Jacobsen, Schmidt, Wynne, Paris, May, Haugen, Betrozoff, Winsley, Edmondson, Cooper, Wilson, Forner, D. Sommers, Tate, Mitchell, Fraser, Spanel and R. Johnson; by request of Department of Community Development.

House Committee on Capital Facilities & Financing

Senate Committee on Commerce & Labor

Background:  The Public Works Board may make low-interest or interest-free loans to help local governments finance the repair, replacement or improvement of essential public works:  roads, bridges, water systems, and storm and sanitary sewage systems. 

Each year, the board submits a list of projects to the Legislature for approval.  The Legislature may delete a project from the list but may not add any projects or change the order of project priorities.

Summary:  Sixty-five public works projects totaling $51,900,000, recommended by the Public Works Board, are authorized for fiscal year 1991.  (The appropriation for these projects was included in the 1989-91 capital budget.)

Six additional public works projects totaling $6,568,000 are also authorized for fiscal year 1991.  An appropriation from the public works assistance account is made to cover these six projects.

In total, 71 projects totaling $58,468,000 recommended by the public works board are authorized for fiscal year 1991.

Votes on Final Passage:

House  96   0

Senate 43   0    (Senate amended)

House  96   0    (House concurred)

Effective:    May 9, 1991