BILL REQ. #:  H-3917.1 

Read first time 01/14/2004.   Referred to Committee on Education.

     AN ACT Relating to teacher cottages in nonhigh school districts totally surrounded by water, serving fewer than forty students; and amending RCW 28A.335.240 and 28A.335.130.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 28A.335.240 and 1969 ex.s. c 223 s 28A.60.181 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) The board of directors of a second class school district shall build schoolhouses ((and teachers' cottages)) when directed by a vote of the district to do so((. The board of directors of a second class school district)) and may purchase real property for any school district purpose.
     (2) The board of directors of a second class nonhigh school district that is totally surrounded by water and serves fewer than forty students also may authorize the construction of teachers' cottages using funds from the district's capital projects fund or general fund. Rental and other income from the cottages, including sale of the cottages, may be deposited, in whole or in part, into the school district's general fund, debt service fund, or capital projects fund as determined by the board of directors.

Sec. 2   RCW 28A.335.130 and 1983 c 59 s 14 are each amended to read as follows:
     Except as provided in RCW 28A.335.240(1), the proceeds from any sale of school district real property by a board of directors shall be deposited to the debt service fund and/or the capital projects fund, except for amounts required to be expended for the costs associated with the sale of such property, which moneys may be deposited into the fund from which the expenditure was incurred.