CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2311

                        54th Legislature

                      1996 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 4, 1996   Yeas 94   Nays 0 Speaker of the        House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 1, 1996   Yeas 48   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2311 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2311

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                     AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

             Passed Legislature - 1996 Regular Session

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)) may 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) If the board of directors of a school district included within the definition in subsection (1) of this section reduces the length of the term of office for school directors in the district from six to four years, the reduction in the length of term must not affect the term of office of any incumbent director without his or her consent, and provision must be made to appropriately stagger future elections of school directors.

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