2945 AMS SELL HORN 006

HB 2945 - S AMD ‑ 1032

    BySenator Sellar

                            RULED OUTSIDE SCOPE AND OBJECT 3/12/98

    On page 6, after line 3, insert the following:

    "NEW SECTION. Sec. 5. (1)  The 1998 final supplemental transportation budget, engrossed substitute senate bill 6456 (chapter  __ , laws of 1998) incorporates three discrete, supplemental budget items appropriated to the improvement program of the department of transportation that specify appropriation amounts to be used to fund preconstruction activities and corridor analyses.  The budget items left the selection of specific projects to the transportation commission.  The budget items are as follows:

    (a)  $20,000,000 for preconstruction activities;

    (b)  $25,000,000 for preconstruction activities; and

    (c) $2,000,000 for corridor analyses, of which $250,000 is specified for the Spokane beltway and $400,000 is for the I-605 corridor analysis.

    (2) Four projects received funding for preconstruction activity in the version of engrossed substitute senate bill 6456 passed by the Washington state senate on February 27, 1998, that will not be funded in the enacted version of engrossed substitute senate bill 6456 (chapter , laws of 1998).  It is the legislature=s intent to provide funding from revenue sources enacted as of the effective date of this act for preconstruction activity for these four projects from the items described in subsection (1) of this section.  The projects, and the project lists in which they are identified, are listed below:

    (a) SR 20, sharps corner vic. to SR 536 vic.;

    (b)  SR 166, ross point slide;

    (c) SR 270, johnson road to Idaho state line; and

    (d) I-405 corridor MIS and predesign.

    (3) Additionally, it is the intent of the legislature, following approval by the voters of the transportation revenue referendum in November 1998, to give the seven projects listed below priority status for construction funding:

    (a) SR17/26 grade separation;

    (b) I-90, sprague avenue;

    (c) SR 522, SR 9 to paradise lake road;

    (d) SR 525, SR 99 interchange ;

    (e) SR 536, memorial highway bridge;

    (f) Spokane street viaduct; and

    (g) SR 166, ross point slide, construction phase.

    (4) If additional transportation project funding is enacted in chapter , laws of 1998 (SHB 2615), then the projects listed in subsection (3) of this section shall receive construction funding from that source during the 1997-1999 biennium."

HB 2945 - S AMD ‑ 1032

    BySenator Sellar

    On page 1, on line 2 of the title, after "43.105.160", strike "and"

    On page 1, on line 3 of the title, after "43.105.190" insert ", and  creating a new section"

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