FINAL BILL REPORT

                  HB 1193

                         C 271 L 95

                     Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Giving the department of transportation discretion in setting capital facility rental rates.

Sponsors:  Representatives Benton, Mitchell, K. Schmidt and R. Fisher; by request of Department of Transportation.

House Committee on Transportation

Senate Committee on Transportation

Background:  Beginning in July 1991, the Department of Transportation was required to set and charge rental rates to department programs for the use of its real property, buildings or structures.  Receipts from rental charges are to be placed in the transportation capital facilities account.  Monies in that account are to be used to purchase, construct, repair, maintain and operate such real property or structures to carry out the duties of the department for the state transportation system.

The 1993-95 transportation budget did not include the appropriation authority for each program to pay the rental charges to the account.  Rather, monies were appropriated directly from the motor vehicle fund to the capital facilities account.

Summary:  The requirement that the Department of Transportation charge rental rates to department programs for use of department-owned real property, buildings, or structures is repealed.  The requirement that those charges be deposited into the transportation capital facilities account is also repealed.

Votes on Final Passage:

House     94 1

Senate    42 0 (Senate amended)

     House     97 0 (House concurred)

Effective:  July  23, 1995