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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2720

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State of Washington              54th Legislature             1996 Regular Session

By House Committee on Corrections (originally sponsored by Representatives Ballasiotes, Schoesler, Sheahan, Fuhrman, Foreman, Mastin, D. Sommers, Sterk, Crouse, Campbell, L. Thomas, Silver, Morris, Cooke, Mulliken, Blanton, McMorris, Thompson and Elliot)

Read first time 02/02/96. 

Allowing consortiums of counties to acquire correctional facilities.

     AN ACT Relating to consortiums of counties formed for the purpose of acquiring correctional facilities; amending RCW 79.01.006; and adding a new section to chapter 43.17 RCW.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 79.01.006 and 1991 c 204 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

     (1) Every five years the department of social and health services and other state agencies that operate institutions shall conduct an inventory of all real property subject to the charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory institution account and other real property acquired for institutional purposes or for the benefit of the blind, deaf, mentally ill, developmentally disabled, or otherwise disabled.  The inventory shall identify which of those real properties are not needed for state-provided residential care, custody, or treatment.  By December 1, 1992, and every five years thereafter the department shall report the results of the inventory to the house of representatives committee on capital facilities and financing, the senate committee on ways and means, and the legislative budget committee.

     (2) Real property identified as not needed for state-provided residential care, custody, or treatment shall be transferred to the corpus of the charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory institution account.  This subsection shall not apply to leases of real property to a consortium of three or more counties in order for the counties to construct or otherwise acquire correctional facilities for juveniles or adults or to real property subject to binding conditions that conflict with the other provisions of this subsection.

     (3) The department of natural resources shall manage all property subject to the charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory institution account and, in consultation with the department of social and health services and other affected agencies, shall adopt a plan for the management of real property subject to the account and other real property acquired for institutional purposes or for the benefit of the blind, deaf, mentally ill, developmentally disabled, or otherwise disabled.

     (a) The plan shall be consistent with state trust land policies and shall be compatible with the needs of institutions adjacent to real property subject to the plan.

     (b) The plan may be modified as necessary to ensure the quality of future management and to address the acquisition of additional real property.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 43.17 RCW to read as follows:

     (1) The department of social and health services and other state agencies may lease real property to a consortium of three or more counties in order for the counties to construct or otherwise acquire correctional facilities for juveniles or adults.

     (2) A lease governed by subsection (1) of this section shall not charge more than one dollar per year for the land value or facilities value, but the lease may include provisions for payment of any reasonable operation and maintenance expenses incurred by the state.

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