Read first time 01/13/2005.   Referred to Committee on Transportation.

     AN ACT Relating to adding an additional port district member to the executive board of regional transportation planning organizations; and amending RCW 47.80.060.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 47.80.060 and 1992 c 101 s 31 are each amended to read as follows:
     In order to qualify for state planning funds available to regional transportation planning organizations, the regional transportation planning organizations containing any county with a population in excess of ((one million)) three hundred thousand shall provide voting membership on its executive board, or equivalent board, to the state transportation commission, the state department of transportation, and the ((three)) four largest public port districts within the region as determined by gross operating revenues. It shall further assure that at least fifty percent of the county and city local elected officials who serve on the executive board also serve on transit agency boards or on a regional transit authority.