SENATE BILL REPORT

                   HB 2726

              As Reported By Senate Committee On:

                 Education, February 22, 1996

Title:  An act relating to school bond election resolutions.

Brief Description:  Moving school bond election resolution provisions.

Sponsors:  Representatives Radcliff and Blanton.

Brief History:

Committee Activity:  Education:  2/20/96, 2/22/96 [DP].

SENATE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

Majority Report:  Do pass.

  Signed by Senators McAuliffe, Chair; Goings, Vice Chair; Finkbeiner, Hochstatter, Johnson, Pelz and Rasmussen.

Staff:  Susan Mielke (786-7422)

Background:  In 1995, SHB 1777 was passed by the Legislature and enacted into law.  It requires school districts to adopt a resolution prior to a bond election specifying the purposes of a bond measure and any related state school construction assistance that the district will receive.  If the school district subsequently determines that circumstances have changed and the expenditures should be spent differently, the district may alter the resolution or adopt a new resolution at a public meeting after public testimony is received.

SHB 1777 was codified into a section of the education code relating to validation of indebtedness instead of into the section relating to school district bonds.

Summary of Bill:  The requirement that districts adopt a resolution specifying the purposes of a bond measure is moved from the section of the education code relating to validation of indebtedness to the section of the education code relating to school district bonds.

Appropriation:  None.

Fiscal Note:  Not requested.

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

Testimony For:  This is a technical fix to change language to an appropriate chapter in the code.

Testimony Against:  None.

Testified:  Representative Radcliff, prime sponsor.