CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        SENATE BILL 5370

 

                    Chapter 11, Laws of 1993

 

 

                        53rd Legislature

                   1993 First Special Session

 

 

    HIGHWAY BONDS‑-STATE CONTRIBUTION TO PROJECTS FUNDED BY

                   OTHER GOVERNMENT ENTITIES

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  8/5/93

Passed by the Senate May 5, 1993

  YEAS 43   NAYS 3

 

 

 

JOEL PRITCHARD

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House May 5, 1993

  YEAS 63   NAYS 34

               CERTIFICATE

 

I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5370 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

  BRIAN EBERSOLE

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

MARTY BROWN

                                 Secretary

 

 

Approved May 28, 1993 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

                                     FILED          

 

 

                  May 28, 1993 - 1:59 p.m.

 

 

 

    MIKE LOWRY

Governor of the State of Washington

                        Secretary of State

                       State of Washington


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                                                     SENATE BILL 5370

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                                                    Passed Legislature - 1993 First Special Session

 

 

State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

 

By Senators Vognild, Nelson, Skratek and Talmadge

 

Read first time 01/26/93.  Referred to Committee on Transportation.

 

Authorizing state highway bonds.


          AN ACT Relating to state highway bonds; and amending RCW 47.10.761 and 47.10.762.

 

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

 

        Sec. 1.  RCW 47.10.761 and 1984 c 7 s 111 are each amended to read as follows:

          It is the purpose of RCW 47.10.761 through 47.10.771 to provide reserve funds to the department for the following purposes:

          (1) For construction, reconstruction, or repair of any state highway made necessary by slides, storm damage, or other unexpected or unusual causes;

          (2) For construction or improvement of any state highway when necessary to alleviate or prevent intolerable traffic congestion caused by extraordinary and unanticipated economic development within any area of the state;

          (3) To advance funds to any city or county to be used exclusively for the construction or improvement of any city street or county road when necessary to alleviate or prevent intolerable traffic congestion caused by extraordinary and unanticipated economic development within a particular area of the state.  Before funds provided by the sale of bonds as authorized in RCW 47.10.761 through 47.10.770, are loaned to any city or county for the purposes specified herein, the department shall enter into an agreement with the city or county providing for repayment to the motor vehicle fund of such funds, together with the amount of bond interest thereon, from the city's or the county's share of the motor vehicle funds arising from excise taxes on motor vehicle fuels, over a period not to exceed twenty-five years; and

          (4) To participate in projects on state highways or projects benefiting state highways that have been selected for funding by entities other than the Washington state department of transportation and require a financing contribution by the department of transportation.

 

        Sec. 2.  RCW 47.10.762 and 1967 ex.s. c 7 s 14 are each amended to read as follows:

          In order to provide reserve funds for the purposes specified in RCW 47.10.761, there shall be issued and sold ((limited)) general obligation bonds of the state of Washington in the sum of twenty-five million dollars or such amount thereof and at such times as may be determined to be necessary by the state ((highway)) transportation commission.  The issuance, sale and retirement of said bonds shall be under the supervision and control of the state finance committee which, upon request being made by the Washington state ((highway)) transportation commission, shall provide for the issuance, sale and retirement of coupon or registered bonds to be dated, issued and sold from time to time in such amounts as may be necessary for the ((orderly scheduled construction of the interstate highway system)) purposes enumerated in RCW 47.10.761.


          Passed the Senate May 5, 1993.

          Passed the House May 5, 1993.

Approved by the Governor May 28, 1993.

          Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 28, 1993.