SENATE BILL REPORT

                  SHB 2888

              As Reported By Senate Committee On:

               Transportation, February 26, 1998

Title:  An act relating to obsolete transportation accounts and funds.

Brief Description:  Deleting reference to obsolete transportation accounts.

Sponsors:  House Committee on Transportation Policy & Budget (originally sponsored by Representatives Mitchell, Fisher, K. Schmidt, Radcliff, Cairnes, Zellinsky, Backlund, Skinner, Chandler, DeBolt, Sterk, Gardner, Hankins, Mielke, Wood, O'Brien, Ogden, McCune, Sherstad, B. Thomas and Lambert).

Brief History:

Committee Activity:  Transportation:  2/26/98 [DP].

SENATE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

Majority Report:  Do pass.

  Signed by Senators Prince, Chair; Benton, Vice Chair; Wood, Vice Chair; Haugen, Horn, Jacobsen, Morton, Oke, Patterson and Rasmussen.

Staff:  Gary Lebow (786-7304)

Background:  The Budget Development Working Group of the Legislative Transportation Committee conducted, during the 1997 interim, an analysis of the 43 different accounts that are appropriated within the transportation budget.  The working group recommended eliminating six accounts that are no longer needed, and consolidating two accounts used for similar activities into one account.

Summary of Bill:  The transfer relief account, the gasohol exemption holding account, and the highway construction stabilization account are each repealed or eliminated.  The marine operating account is repealed, and the activities within the account are moved to the Puget Sound ferry operations account.

Appropriation:  None.

Fiscal Note:  Not requested.

Effective Date:  The bill takes effect on July 1, 1999.

Testimony For:  None.

Testimony Against:  None.

Testified:  No one.