BILL REQ. #: S-1796.1

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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5351
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State of Washington

58th Legislature

2003 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Land Use & Planning (originally sponsored by Senators Haugen, Swecker, Doumit, Morton, Rasmussen, Hargrove, Horn, Stevens, Spanel and Esser)

READ FIRST TIME 02/27/03.

AN ACT Relating to state agency land use mandates; and amending RCW 36.70A.103.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 36.70A.103 and 2002 c 68 s 15 are each amended to read as follows:
     State agencies shall comply with the local comprehensive plans and development regulations and amendments thereto adopted pursuant to this chapter except as otherwise provided in RCW 71.09.250 (1) through (3), 71.09.342, and 72.09.333. No county, city, local agency, or person may be required to comply with any state environmental or land use requirement imposed as a condition of plan or permit approval unless such requirement or condition has first been implemented on state-owned lands, facilities, or waters of reasonably similar nature, if any, located within the same watershed.
     The provisions of chapter 12, Laws of 2001 2nd sp. sess. do not affect the state's authority to site any other essential public facility under RCW 36.70A.200 in conformance with local comprehensive plans and development regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter ((~~36.70A RCW~~)).

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