BILL REQ. #:  S-1224.1 

Read first time 03/01/2007.   Referred to Committee on Transportation.

     AN ACT Relating to providing comprehensive membership of significant jurisdictions on 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 2005 c 334 s 1 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 shall provide voting membership on its executive board to the state transportation commission, the state department of transportation, ((and)) the four largest public port districts within the region as determined by gross operating revenues, any city in the most populous county that has a population greater than three percent of that county's population, and any city in any other county that has a population greater than five percent of the population of that county where the city is located. It shall further assure that at least fifty percent of the weighted vote attributable to 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.