FINAL BILL REPORT

                 SHB 2714

                     Synopsis as Enacted

                          C 16 L 92

Brief Description:  Regulating addition of territory to public transportation benefit areas.

By House Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Representatives R. Fisher, Cantwell, Paris and Wood).

House Committee on Transportation

Senate Committee on Transportation

Background:  A public transportation benefit area (PTBA) is a locally controlled, special purpose government that provides public transit services.

The following regulations relate to the addition of territory to PTBAs.  (1) PTBAs may not contain part of any city.  Instead, PTBAs must wholly include or wholly exclude cities from their boundaries.  (2) If, subsequent to the formation of a PTBA, an additional area becomes part of a component city, the additional area is included within the boundaries of the PTBA.  (3) If a city that is not a component city of the PTBA adds area to its boundaries that is within the boundaries of the PTBA, the area added will be excluded from the PTBA area.

Summary:  If a city extends its boundaries through annexation across a county boundary line to include areas within the public transportation benefit area (PTBA), then the entire area of the city within the county that is within the PTBA shall be included within the PTBA boundaries.  That area of the city in the PTBA shall be considered a component city of the PTBA corporation.

Votes on Final Passage:

House  98   0

Senate 47   0

Effective:    March 20, 1992