FINAL BILL REPORT

                   SB 5251

                           C 42 L 95

                      Synopsis as Enacted

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

Sponsors:  Senators Rasmussen, Fraser, Oke, Wojahn, Franklin, Winsley, Schow, Swecker and Gaspard.

Senate Committee on Transportation

House Committee on Transportation

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

Summary:  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.

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate    48 0

House     95 0

Effective:  July 23, 1995