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                                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 805

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By Representatives Taylor, Ebersole, Brough, Haugen, B. Williams, H. Sommers, Sanders, Leonard, Betrozoff, Ballard, Bristow, May, Locke, Braddock, Peery, Walker, Padden, D. Sommers, Amondson, Schoon, L. Smith, Bumgarner and Miller

Read first time 2/9/87 and referred to Committee on Education.

AN ACT Relating to school plant construction; and adding a new section to chapter 28A.47 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 28A.47 RCW to read as follows:

          No school district with unhoused students may be eligible for the state matching percentage for the construction of school plant facilities if:

          (1) The school district contiguous to the school district applying for the state matching percentage has vacant school plant facilities;

          (2) The superintendent of public instruction and the state board of education have determined the vacant school plant facilities available in the contiguous district will fulfill the needs of the applicant district in housing unhoused students.  In determining whether the contiguous district school plant facilities meet the needs of the applicant district, consideration shall be given to the geographic location of the vacant facilities as they relate to the applicant district; and

          (3) A lease of the vacant school plant facilities can be negotiated.  School districts shall be required to lease for a reasonable fee vacant school plant facilities from a contiguous school district wherever possible.