BILL REQ. #:  H-4261.1 

Read first time 01/28/2004.   Referred to Committee on Local Government.

     AN ACT Relating to expanding the jurisdiction of the growth management hearings boards to include all counties and cities in Washington state; and amending RCW 36.70A.250.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 36.70A.250 and 1994 c 249 s 29 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) There are hereby created three growth management hearings boards for the state of Washington. The boards shall be established as follows:
     (a) An Eastern Washington board with jurisdictional boundaries including all counties that are ((required to or choose to plan under RCW 36.70A.040 and are)) located east of the crest of the Cascade mountains;
     (b) A Central Puget Sound board with jurisdictional boundaries including King, Pierce, Snohomish, and Kitsap counties; and
     (c) A Western Washington board with jurisdictional boundaries including all counties that are ((required or choose to plan under RCW 36.70A.040 and are)) located west of the crest of the Cascade mountains and are not included in the Central Puget Sound board jurisdictional boundaries. Skamania ((county, should it be required or choose to plan under RCW 36.70A.040, may)) county's legislative body shall, by a resolution adopted within one hundred eighty days of the effective date of this section, elect to be included within the jurisdictional boundaries of either the Western or Eastern board.
     (2) Each board shall only hear matters pertaining to the cities and counties located within its jurisdictional boundaries.