CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1050

                   Chapter 138, Laws of 1991

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

      EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES DISTRICTS‑-EXCESS LEVIES

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/28/91

Passed by the House March 12, 1991

  Yeas 94   Nays 0

              JOE KING             

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate April 10, 1991

  Yeas 44   Nays 0

           JOEL PRITCHARD          

President of the Senate

Approved May 10, 1991

           BOOTH GARDNER           

Governor of the State of Washington

CERTIFICATE

I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1050 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

            ALAN THOMPSON              Chief Clerk

                                     FILED         

                  May 10, 1991 - 2:38 p.m.

                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington  

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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1050

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                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By House Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Morris, Cooper, Wynne, Peery, Ogden, Wang, Nealey and H. Myers).

Read first time February 28, 1991.  Modifying the type of emergency medical service districts that may impose excess levies.

     AN ACT Relating to emergency medical services districts excess levies; and amending RCW 84.52.052.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 84.52.052 and 1989 c 53 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:

     The limitations imposed by RCW 84.52.050 through 84.52.056, and RCW 84.52.043 shall not prevent the levy of additional taxes by any taxing district except school districts in which a larger levy is necessary in order to prevent the impairment of the obligation of contracts.  As used in this section, the term "taxing district" means any county, metropolitan park district, park and recreation service area, park and recreation district, sewer district, water district, solid waste disposal district, public facilities district, flood control zone district, county rail district, service district, public hospital district, road district, rural county library district, island library district, intercounty rural library district, fire protection district, cemetery district, city, town, transportation benefit district, emergency medical service district with a population density of less than one thousand per square mile, or cultural arts, stadium, ((transportation benefit district)) and convention district.

Any such taxing district may levy taxes at a rate in excess of the rate specified in RCW 84.52.050 through 84.52.056 and 84.52.043, or RCW 84.55.010 through 84.55.050, when authorized so to do by the ((electors of such county, metropolitan park district, park and recreation service area, park and recreation district, sewer district, water district, solid waste disposal district, public facilities district, flood control zone district, county rail district, service district, public hospital district, road district, rural county library district, island library district, intercounty rural library district, fire protection district, cemetery district, city, town, or cultural arts, stadium, transportation benefit district, and convention district)) voters of such taxing district in the manner set forth in Article VII, section 2(a) of the Constitution of this state, as amended by Amendment 64 and as thereafter amended, at a special or general election to be held in the year in which the levy is made.

     A special election may be called and the time therefor fixed by the county legislative authority, or council, board of commissioners, or other governing body of any ((metropolitan park district, park and recreation service area, park and recreation district, sewer district, water district, solid waste disposal district, public facilities district, flood control zone district, county rail district, service district, public hospital district, road district, rural county library district, island library district, intercounty rural library district, fire protection district, cemetery district, transportation benefit district, city, town, or cultural arts, stadium, and convention district)) such taxing district, by giving notice thereof by publication in the manner provided by law for giving notices of general elections, at which special election the proposition authorizing such excess levy shall be submitted in such form as to enable the voters favoring the proposition to vote "yes" and those opposed thereto to vote "no."

     Passed the House March 12, 1991.

     Passed the Senate April 10, 1991.

Approved by the Governor May 10, 1991.

     Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 10, 1991.