SENATE BILL REPORT

                   HB 1567

              As Reported By Senate Committee On:

                 Transportation, April 3, 1995

Title:  An act relating to the transportation authority of first class cities.

Brief Description:  Affecting the transportation authority of first class cities.

Sponsors:  Representatives R. Fisher, Regala, Chappell and Brumsickle.

Brief History:

Committee Activity:  Transportation:  3/28/95, 4/3/95 [DP].

SENATE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

Majority Report:  Do pass.

  Signed by Senators Owen, Chair; Heavey, Vice Chair; Fairley, Haugen, Kohl, Morton, Oke, Prentice, Prince, Rasmussen, Schow, Sellar and Wood.

Staff:  Jeff Doyle (786-7322)

Background:  Under current law, first class cities are authorized to exercise their powers relative to railways (such as owning, constructing, and operating) throughout the county in which they are located, and into adjoining counties, so long as the adjoining county has a population between 40,000 and 125,000 and is intersected by an interstate highway.

Summary of Bill:  For cities owning railway extending beyond their own county, the requirement that the adjoining county have a certain population and be intersected by an interstate highway is removed.  The result is that first class cities may maintain railways beyond the boundaries of their county and into any other adjoining county.

Appropriation:  None.

Fiscal Note:  Not requested.

Effective Date:  Ninety days after adjournment of session in which bill is passed.

Testimony For:  None.

Testimony Against:  None.

Testified:  No one.