SENATE BILL REPORT

                            HB 2562

                AS PASSED SENATE, MARCH 1, 1994

Brief Description:  Foreclosing liens on delinquent assessments.

SPONSORS: Representative Rayburn

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE & RURAL DEVELOPMENT

SENATE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

Majority Report:  Do pass. 

     Signed by Senators M. Rasmussen, Chairman; Loveland, Vice Chairman; Anderson, Bauer, Morton, Newhouse and Snyder.

Staff:  Bob Lee (786‑7404)

Hearing Dates: February 22, 1994

BACKGROUND:

State laws governing foreclosure proceedings for delinquent irrigation district assessments require that a title to property secured in such a foreclosure sale be, in general, free of encumbrances.  However, the following are encumbrances if they have become due after the time of the foreclosure sale:  property taxes, drainage or diking district or improvement district assessments, and irrigation district assessments.

SUMMARY:

Added to the list of taxes and assessments which encumber property sold through a foreclosure proceeding for delinquent irrigation district assessments are mosquito district assessments.

Appropriation:  none

Revenue:  none

Fiscal Note:  none requested

TESTIMONY FOR:  None

TESTIMONY AGAINST:  None

TESTIFIED:  No one