HOUSE BILL REPORT

HB 2855

BYRepresentatives Ferguson, Phillips, Cooper, Wood and Haugen

Changing provisions relating to lessee improvements to municipal airports.

House Committe on Local Government

Majority Report:  Do pass.  (13)

      Signed by Representatives Haugen, Chair; Cooper, Vice Chair; Ferguson, Ranking Republican Member; Horn, Kirby, Nealey, Nelson, Nutley, Phillips, Raiter, Rayburn, Wolfe and Zellinsky.

House Staff:Steve Lundin (786-7127)

AS PASSED HOUSE FEBRUARY 13, 1990

BACKGROUND:

Port districts are authorized to provide airports and other air navigation facilities, and to lease such space and improvements.

SUMMARY:

Port districts are authorized to permit the lessees of their airport space and improvements to construct, alter, or improve the leased premises at the cost of the lessee, and to reimburse the lessee for such costs if paid solely out of funds fully collected from the airport's tenants.

Fiscal Note:      Not Requested.

House Committee ‑ Testified For:    Linda Christopherson, Bogle & Gates law firm; and Clifford Argue, Alaska Airlines.

House Committee - Testified Against:      No one.

House Committee - Testimony For:    This is a common practice in private enterprise, and in the airline industry.

House Committee - Testimony Against:      None.