FINAL BILL REPORT

SSB 5506

                              C 181 L 89

BYSenate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Newhouse, Gaspard, Lee, Benitz and Anderson; by request of Department of Community Development)

Making appropriations for projects recommended by the public works board.

Senate Committee on Ways & Means

House Committe on Capital Facilities & Financing

SYNOPSIS AS ENACTED

BACKGROUND:

Under Chapter 43.155 RCW, the Public Works Board, within the Department of Community Development, may make low-interest or interest-free loans to assist local governments in financing public works projects.  Eligible public works include roads, bridges, water systems, and storm and sanitary sewage systems.  The statute establishes eligibility criteria for local governments and priorities for projects.  Each year, the board submits a list of projects to the Legislature for approval and appropriation.  The Legislature may delete a project from the list but may not add any projects or change the order of project priorities.

SUMMARY:

From the public works assistance account $39,931,540 is appropriated to the Public Works Board for a list of 64 projects for the 1987-89 fiscal biennium, including $1 million for unanticipated emergency public works.  The existing 1987-89 appropriation to the Public Works Board is reduced by $5.9 million to reflect unused appropriation authority.

VOTES ON FINAL PASSAGE:

     Senate   44    0

     House 98  0 (House amended)

     Senate          (Senate refused to concur)

     House 95  0 (House receded)

EFFECTIVE:April 23, 1989