CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1525

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 11, 1997   Yeas 97   Nays 0 Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 10, 1997   Yeas 46   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1525  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                          HOUSE BILL 1525

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             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Representatives K. Schmidt, Hatfield and Skinner; by request of County Road Administration Board

Read first time 01/29/97.  Referred to Committee on Transportation Policy & Budget.

Revising the submittal date for county six-year transportation programs.

    AN ACT Relating to the submittal date for county six-year transportation programs; and reenacting and amending RCW 36.81.121.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 36.81.121 and 1994 c 179 s 2 and 1994 c 158 s 8 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:

    (1) At any time before ((July 1st of each year)) adoption of the budget, the legislative authority of each county, after one or more public hearings thereon, shall prepare and adopt a comprehensive transportation program for the ensuing six calendar years.  If the county has adopted a comprehensive plan pursuant to chapter 35.63 or 36.70 RCW, the inherent authority of a charter county derived from its charter, or chapter 36.70A RCW, the program shall be consistent with this comprehensive plan.

    The program shall include proposed road and bridge construction work and other transportation facilities and programs deemed appropriate, and for those counties operating ferries shall also include a separate section showing proposed capital expenditures for ferries, docks, and related facilities.  Copies of the program shall be filed with the county road administration board and with the state secretary of transportation not more than thirty days after its adoption by the legislative authority.  The purpose of this section is to assure that each county shall perpetually have available advanced plans looking to the future for not less than six years as a guide in carrying out a coordinated transportation program.  The program may at any time be revised by a majority of the legislative authority but only after a public hearing thereon.

    (2) Each six-year transportation program forwarded to the secretary in compliance with subsection (1) of this section shall contain information as to how a county will expend its moneys, including funds made available pursuant to chapter 47.30 RCW, for nonmotorized transportation purposes.

    (3) Each six-year transportation program forwarded to the secretary in compliance with subsection (1) of this section shall contain information as to how a county shall act to preserve railroad right-of-way in the event the railroad ceases to operate in the county's jurisdiction.

    (4) The six-year plan for each county shall specifically set forth those projects and programs of regional significance for inclusion in the transportation improvement program within that region.

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