H-935                _______________________________________________

                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 1429

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Representatives Betrozoff, Peery, Walker, Brough, Schoon, Ferguson, Fraser, Dorn and Brekke

Read first time 1/25/89 and referred to Committee on Education. Referred 3/1/89 to Committee on Revenue.

AN ACT Relating to school levies; amending RCW 84.52.053; and providing a contingent effective date.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 3, chapter 325, Laws of 1977 ex. sess. as last amended by section 103, chapter 2, Laws of 1987 1st ex. sess. and RCW 84.52.053 are each amended to read as follows:

          The limitations imposed by RCW 84.52.050 through 84.52.056, and RCW 84.52.043 shall not prevent the levy of additional taxes by school districts, when authorized so to do by the electors of such school district in the manner and for the purposes and number of years allowable under Article VII, section 2(a) of the Constitution of this state, as amended by Amendment 79 and as thereafter amended, at a special or general election to be held in the year in which the levy is made or, in the case of a proposition authorizing two-year levies for maintenance and operation support of a school district or authorizing two-year through six-year levies to support the construction, modernization, or remodeling of school facilities, or both, at a special or general election to be held in the year in which the first annual levy is made:  PROVIDED, That once additional tax levies have been authorized for maintenance and operation support of a school district for a ((two)) four-year period, no further additional tax levies for maintenance and operation support of the district for that period may be authorized.

          A special election may be called and the time therefor fixed by the board of school directors, by giving notice thereof by publication in the manner provided by law for giving notices of general elections, at which special election the proposition authorizing such excess levy shall be submitted in such form as to enable the voters favoring the proposition to vote "yes" and those opposed thereto to vote "no".

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     This act shall take effect December 15, 1989, if the proposed amendment to Article VII, section 2 of the state Constitution to change the time period for certain school levies, House Joint Resolution No. .......... , (H-936) is validly submitted to and is approved and ratified by the voters at a general election held in November 1989.  If the proposed amendment is not so approved and ratified, this act shall be null and void in its entirety.