SENATE BILL REPORT

SSB 5351

As Passed Senate, March 16, 2003

Title: An act relating to state agency land use mandates.

Brief Description: Requiring state agencies to first apply land use mandates to state lands.

Sponsors: Senate Committee on Land Use & Planning (originally sponsored by Senators Haugen, Swecker, Doumit, Morton, Rasmussen, Hargrove, Horn, Stevens, Spanel and Esser).

Brief History:

Committee Activity: Land Use & Planning: 2/6/03, 2/24/03 [DPS].

Passed Senate: 3/16/03, 41-7.

SENATE COMMITTEE ON LAND USE & PLANNING

Majority Report: That Substitute Senate Bill No. 5351 be substituted therefor, and the substitute bill do pass.

      Signed by Senators Mulliken, Chair; McCaslin, Morton and T. Sheldon.

Staff: Tim Watterson (786-7441)

Background: Under the current statute, state agencies must comply with comprehensive plans and development regulations of local governments subject to the Growth Management Act (GMA), with certain exceptions for correctional facilities and secure community transition facilities.

Summary of Bill: State agencies must still comply with local comprehensive plans and development regulations, with the same exceptions, but agencies must first implement on state-owned lands any and all requirements they seek local governments to impose on private lands.

Appropriation: None.

Fiscal Note: Requested on January 29, 2003.

Effective Date: Ninety days after adjournment of session in which bill is passed.

Testimony For: It is only fair that state agencies first implement on state lands the requirements that the agencies impose on local governments and private lands.

Testimony Against: None.

Testified: Senator Haugen, prime sponsor.