FINAL BILL REPORT

                  HB 2729

                          C 49 L 96

                     Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Making housekeeping changes in transportation improvement board statutes.

Sponsors:  Representatives Sterk and K. Schmidt; by request of Transportation Improvement Board.

House Committee on Transportation

Senate Committee on Transportation

Background:  In 1995 the Legislature transferred administration of two grant programs and project selection for another program from the Department of Transportation to the Transportation Improvement Board and made some changes to board membership.  The transferred programs included the Central Puget Sound public transportation account and the public transportation systems account programs, which provide grants for transit-related capital projects, and competitive grants from the federal Surface Transportation Program which may be used for a variety of transportation purposes.  The legislation effecting the changes included some technical errors.

Summary:  Technical corrections are made in the Transportation Improvement Board statutes.

Votes on Final Passage:

House    97 0

Senate    46 0

Effective:  June 6, 1996