FINAL BILL REPORT

                  HB 1637

                         C 174 L 93

                     Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Including municipal street railways in the definition of public work.

By Representatives Conway, Heavey, King, G. Cole, Basich, Kessler, G. Fisher, Karahalios, Jacobsen, Ogden and Veloria.

House Committee on Commerce & Labor

Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce

Background:  State law regulates contracting procedures for public works.  Public works include all work, construction, alteration, repair, or improvement other than ordinary maintenance, executed at the cost of the state or of any municipality, but does not include work on municipal street railways.  Municipal street railways were excluded from public works in the original act in 1923, the same year that the Legislature created local improvement districts for municipal street railways.

Summary:  The definition of public work is amended to delete the exclusion of municipal street railways.

Votes on Final Passage:

House  62 36

Senate 31 16

Effective:  July 25, 1993