CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6276

 

 

                    Chapter 31, Laws of 2000

 

 

                        56th Legislature

                      2000 Regular Session

 

 

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE DISTRICTS--CITY OR TOWN INCLUSION--GOVERNANCE

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/8/00

Passed by the Senate February 7, 2000

  YEAS 48   NAYS 0

 

 

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House February 29, 2000

  YEAS 97   NAYS 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6276 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 March 17, 2000 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.  

                                FILED          

 

 

           March 17, 2000 - 2:47 p.m.

 

 

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6276

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             Passed Legislature - 2000 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

 

By Senator Snyder

 

Read first time 01/12/2000.  Referred to Committee on State & Local Government.

Authorizing inclusion of cities and towns within emergency medical service districts. 


    AN ACT Relating to authorizing inclusion of cities and towns within emergency medical service districts; and amending RCW 36.32.480.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 36.32.480 and 1979 ex.s. c 200 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) A county legislative authority may adopt an ordinance creating an emergency medical service district in all or a portion of the unincorporated area of the county and, pursuant to subsection (2) of this section, within the corporate limits of any city or town.  The ordinance may only be adopted after a public hearing has been held on the creation of such a district and the county legislative authority makes a finding that it is in the public interest to create the district.  ((The members of the county legislative authority shall be the governing body of the emergency medical service district.))

    An emergency medical service district shall be a quasi-municipal corporation and an independent taxing "authority" within the meaning of Article 7, Section 1, Washington State Constitution. Emergency medical service districts shall also be "taxing authorities" within the meaning of Article 7, Section 2, Washington State Constitution.

    An emergency medical service district shall have the authority to provide emergency medical services.

    (2) When any part of a proposed emergency medical service district includes an area within the corporate limits of a city or town, the governing body of the city or town shall approve the inclusion, and the county governing body shall maintain a certified copy of the resolution of approval before adopting an ordinance including the area.

    (3) The members of the county legislative authority shall compose the governing body of any emergency medical service district which is created within the county:  PROVIDED, That where an emergency medical service district includes an area within the corporate limits of a city or town, the emergency medical service district may be governed as provided in an interlocal agreement adopted pursuant to chapter 39.34 RCW.  The voters of an emergency medical service district must be registered voters residing within the service area.


    Passed the Senate February 7, 2000.

    Passed the House February 29, 2000.

Approved by the Governor March 17, 2000.

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