Read first time 01/27/2003.   Referred to Committee on Transportation.

     AN ACT Relating to designation of highways of statewide significance; and amending RCW 47.05.022.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 47.05.022 and 2002 c 56 s 302 are each amended to read as follows:
     ((The legislature designates)) The following highways are of statewide significance:
     (1) That portion of state route number 509 that runs or will run from state route number 518 in the north to the intersection with Interstate 5 in the south ((as a state highway of statewide significance));
     (2) That portion of state route number 9 that runs from state route number 522 to the Canadian border, and that portion of state route number 542 from the vicinity of Deming to the vicinity of Nugents Corner;
     (3) That portion of state route number 704 that runs or will run from a junction with state route number 5 in the west, thence easterly across Fort Lewis to a junction with state route number 7.