CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        SENATE BILL 5911

 

 

                   Chapter 194, Laws of 1999

 

 

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

 

 

SCHOOL DIRECTORS--RESIDENCY AND ELECTIONS

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/99

Passed by the Senate April 22, 1999

  YEAS 47   NAYS 0

 

 

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House April 8, 1999

  YEAS 54   NAYS 42

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SENATE BILL 5911 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

            TONY M. COOK

                            Secretary

 

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

 

 

Approved May 5, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.  

                                FILED          

 

 

              May 5, 1999 - 4:25 p.m.

 

 

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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                         SENATE BILL 5911

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                      AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

 

             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

 

By Senators Eide, Hochstatter and McAuliffe

 

Read first time 02/16/1999.  Referred to Committee on Education.

Changing school director eligibility provisions. 


    AN ACT Relating to school director positions, residency, and vacancies; and adding a new section to chapter 28A.315 RCW.

 

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

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 28A.315 RCW to read as follows:

    Notwithstanding RCW 42.12.010(4), a school director elected from a director district may continue to serve as a director from the district even though the director no longer resides in the director district, but continues to reside in the school district, under the following conditions:

    (1) If, as a result of redrawing the director district boundaries, the director no longer resides in the director district, the director shall retain his or her position for the remainder of his or her term of office; and

    (2) If, as a result of the director changing his or her place of residence the director no longer resides in the director district, the director shall retain his or her position until a successor is elected and assumes office as follows:  (a) If the change in residency occurs after the opening of the regular filing period provided under RCW 29.15.020, in the year two years after the director was elected to office, the director shall remain in office for the remainder of his or her term of office; or (b) if the change in residency occurs prior to the opening of the regular filing period provided under RCW 29.15.020, in the year two years after the director was elected to office, the director shall remain in office until a successor assumes office who has been elected to serve the remainder of the unexpired term of office at the school district general election held in that year.


    Passed the Senate April 22, 1999.

    Passed the House April 8, 1999.

Approved by the Governor May 5, 1999.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 5, 1999.