CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        HOUSE BILL 2851

 

 

                    Chapter 20, Laws of 2000

 

 

                        56th Legislature

                      2000 Regular Session

 

 

FLOOD CONTROL MAINTENANCE--STATE FUNDING

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/8/00

Passed by the House February 10, 2000

  Yeas 97   Nays 0

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the House of Representatives

     

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

 

Passed by the Senate March 2, 2000

  Yeas 43   Nays 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

We, Timothy A. Martin and Cynthia Zehnder, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 2851  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

          TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

           CYNTHIA ZEHNDER

                          Chief Clerk

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

 

 

Approved March 17, 2000 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.            

                                FILED                

 

           March 17, 2000 - 2:26 p.m.

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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                          HOUSE BILL 2851

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             Passed Legislature - 2000 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

 

By Representatives Reardon, G. Chandler, Linville, Grant, Stensen, Cooper and Haigh

 

Read first time 01/21/2000.  Referred to Committee on Appropriations.

Changing the state's funding limit for flood control maintenance projects.  


    AN ACT Relating to state participation in flood control maintenance; and amending RCW 86.26.100.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 86.26.100 and 1991 c 322 s 8 are each amended to read as follows:

    State participation in the cost of any flood control maintenance project shall be provided for by a written memorandum agreement between the director of ecology and the legislative authority of the county submitting the request, which agreement, among other things, shall state the estimated cost and the percentage thereof to be borne by the state.  In no instance, except on emergency projects, shall the state's share exceed ((one-half)) seventy-five percent of the total cost of the project, to include project planning and design.  Grants for cost sharing feasibility studies for new flood control projects shall not exceed fifty percent of the matching funds that are required by the federal government, and shall not exceed twenty-five percent of the total costs of the feasibility study.  However, grants to prepare a comprehensive flood control management plan required under RCW 86.26.050 shall not exceed seventy-five percent of the full planning costs, but not to exceed amounts for either purpose specified in rule and regulation by the department of ecology.


    Passed the House February 10, 2000.

    Passed the Senate March 2, 2000.

Approved by the Governor March 17, 2000.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 17, 2000.