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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2622

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By House Committee on House Government Reform & Land Use (originally sponsored by Representatives Kessler, Doumit, Lantz and Hatfield)

Read first time 01/29/98.  Referred to Committee on .

Confirming growth management hearings board members.

    AN ACT Relating to senate confirmation of growth management hearings board members; and amending RCW 36.70A.260.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 36.70A.260 and 1994 c 249 s 30 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) Each growth management hearings board shall consist of three members qualified by experience or training in matters pertaining to land use planning and residing within the jurisdictional boundaries of the applicable board.  At least one member of each board must be admitted to practice law in this state and at least one member must have been a city or county elected official.  Each board shall be appointed by the governor and confirmed by the senate and not more than two members at the time of appointment or during their term shall be members of the same political party.  No more than two members at the time of appointment or during their term shall reside in the same county.  The term of each member shall be six years.

    (2) Each member of a board shall be ((appointed for a term of six years)) subject to senate confirmation.  No member of a board appointed after July 1, 1998, shall begin to serve until the senate has confirmed his or her appointment.  No member of the board appointed on or before July 1, 1998, may continue to serve the remainder of his or her term unless the senate confirms his or her appointment by July 1, 1999.

(3) A vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the governor and shall be subject to senate confirmation.  The member appointed to fill a vacancy shall serve on the board for the unexpired portion of the term in which the vacancy occurs.  ((The terms of the first three members of a board shall be staggered so that one member is appointed to serve until July 1, 1994, one member until July 1, 1996, and one member until July 1, 1998.)) No member appointed to fill a vacancy on a board may begin to serve until the senate has confirmed his or her appointment.  No member appointed to fill a vacancy on the board on or before July 1, 1998, may continue to serve the remainder of his or her term unless the senate confirms his or her appointment by July 1, 1999.

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