HOUSE BILL REPORT

HB 1353

As Passed House:

March 5, 2003

Title: An act relating to state route number 513.

Brief Description: Modifying the route description of state route 513.

Sponsors: By Representative Murray.

Brief History:

Committee Activity:

Transportation: 2/3/03, 2/13/03 [DP].

Floor Activity:

Passed House: 3/5/03, 97-0.

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

Majority Report: Do pass. Signed by 29 members: Representatives Murray, Chair; Rockefeller, Vice Chair; Simpson, Vice Chair; Ericksen, Ranking Minority Member; Jarrett, Assistant Ranking Minority Member; Anderson, Armstrong, Bailey, Campbell, Clibborn, Cooper, Dickerson, Edwards, Flannigan, Hankins, Hatfield, Hudgins, Kristiansen, Lovick, Mielke, Morris, Nixon, Romero, Schindler, Shabro, Sullivan, Wallace, Wood and Woods.

Staff: Gene Baxstrom (786-7303).

Background:

State Route 513, which runs 3.35 miles from State Route 520 in the vicinity of Montlake, north along Sand Point Way.

The Transportation Improvement Board (Board) is responsible for annually reviewing requests for transfers of road jurisdiction among the Department of Transportation (DOT), cities and counties. Criteria for route responsibility is set forth in RCW 47.17.001. Based on the criteria, the DOT requested State Route 513 be transferred to the jurisdiction of the city of Seattle. The Board recommended that a portion of State Route 513 be transferred to the city of Seattle, with 0.2 miles to remain under state jurisdiction.

Summary of Bill:

That portion of State Route 513, north of Northwest Pacific St. in Seattle is transferred from the jurisdiction of the state to the city of Seattle.

Appropriation: None.

Fiscal Note: Not Requested.

Effective Date: The bill takes effect 90 days after adjournment of session in which bill is passed.

Testimony For: This bill implements a recommendation of the Transportation Improvement Board that a portion of State Route 513 be transferred to the jurisdiction of the city of Seattle. It retains the portion of State Route 513 that connects the state highway system (SR 520) to the University of Washington, the appropriate designation for that portion of the state route.

Testimony Against: None.

Testified: Steve Gorcester, Transportation Improvement Board.