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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2311

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State of Washington              54th Legislature             1996 Regular Session

By House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Brumsickle and Regala)

Read first time 02/02/96.

Providing for the elimination of six-year terms of office for school board directors.

     AN ACT Relating to school district board of directors' terms of office; and amending RCW 29.13.060.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

     Sec. 1.  RCW 29.13.060 and 1991 c 363 s 32 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) In each county with a population of two hundred ten thousand or more, first class school districts containing a city of the first class shall hold their elections biennially as provided in RCW 29.13.020.

(2) Except as provided in RCW 28A.315.460, the directors to be elected shall be elected for terms of six years and until their successors are elected and qualified and assume office in accordance with RCW 29.04.170.

(3) Boards of directors of school districts included within the definition in subsection (1) of this section may request the state board of education to reduce the length of the term of office for school directors in the district from six to four years.  The state board shall grant the request if it finds that the reduction in the length of term will not affect the term of office of any incumbent director without his or her consent, and that provision has been made to appropriately stagger future elections of school directors.

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