SENATE BILL REPORT
SB 5041
AS REPORTED BY COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS,
JANUARY 22, 1993
Brief Description: Authorizing counties that choose to plan under the Growth Management Act to require relocation assistance for low‑income tenants.
SPONSORS: Senators Haugen and Winsley
SENATE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
Majority Report: Do pass.
Signed by Senators Haugen, Chairman; Drew, Vice Chairman; Loveland, Oke, Owen, von Reichbauer, and Winsley.
Staff: Eugene Green (786‑7405)
Hearing Dates: January 19, 1993; January 22, 1993
BACKGROUND:
The 1990 Growth Management Act authorized counties and cities required to plan under the act to require property owners to provide relocation assistance to low-income tenants upon demolition, substantial rehabilitation, or change of use of residential property, or upon the removal of use restrictions in an assisted housing development. The relocation assistance cannot exceed $2,000 per dwelling unit and the property owner's portion of any relocation assistance cannot exceed one-half of the required relocation assistance. Counties which opt under the Growth Management Act and the cities within those counties do not have this relocation assistance authorization.
SUMMARY:
Counties which opt under the Growth Management Act and the cities within those counties are authorized to require property owners to provide relocation assistance to low-income tenants.
Appropriation: none
Revenue: none
Fiscal Note: none requested
TESTIMONY FOR:
Requirements and authorizations should be the same whether you had to plan under the Growth Management Act or you choose to plan under the Growth Management Act.
TESTIMONY AGAINST:
This tax is a burden on one section of the economy. The assistance should be paid for with general taxes.
TESTIFIED: Dave Williams, Association of Cities (pro); Paul Parker, Association of Counties (pro); Arnold Fox, Association of Apartment Owners (con); Glen Hudson, Association of Realtors (con)