5110.E AMH TR REDF 060ADOPTED 4/5/2005
ESB 5110 - H COMM AMD
By Committee on Transportation
Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:
"Sec. 1. RCW 47.80.060 and 1992 c 101 s 31 are each amended to read as follows:
In order to qualify for state planning funds available to regional transportation planning organizations, the regional transportation planning organizations containing any county with a population in excess of one million shall provide voting membership on its executive board to the state transportation commission, the state department of transportation, and the ((three)) four largest public port districts within the region as determined by gross operating revenues. It shall further assure that at least fifty percent of the county and city local elected officials who serve on the executive board also serve on transit agency boards or on a regional transit authority.
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EFFECT: A Regional Transportation Planning Organization containing a county with more than one million population would have to add the fourth largest port district to its executive board in order to qualify for state funds.