FINAL BILL REPORT

                  SSB 6643

                           C 36 L 00

                      Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Modifying growth management planning population requirements.

Sponsors:  Senate Committee on State & Local Government (originally sponsored by Senators Hargrove, Snyder, Rasmussen and Oke).

Senate Committee on State & Local Government

House Committee on Local Government

Background:  Each county that has both a population of 50,000 or more and has had its population increase by more than 17 percent in the previous ten years, and the cities located within such county, and any other county regardless of its population that has had its population increase by more than 20 percent in the previous ten years, and the cities located within such county, must conform with the requirements of the Growth Management Act.

Summary:  For the purposes of being required to conform to the requirements of the Growth Management Act, no county is required to include in its population count those persons confined in a correctional facility under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections that is located in the county.  The act is prospective.

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate 480

House907

Effective:June 8, 2000