FINAL BILL REPORT
EHB 1584
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C 118 L 19
Synopsis as Enacted
Brief Description: Restricting the availability of state funds to regional transportation planning organizations that do not provide a reasonable opportunity for voting membership to certain federally recognized tribes.
Sponsors: Representatives Riccelli, Ormsby, Fey, Fitzgibbon, Lovick, Ramos, Stanford and Leavitt.
House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations
House Committee on Transportation
Senate Committee on Transportation
Background:
A Regional Transportation Planning Organization (RTPO) is a voluntary association of local governments within a county, or within geographically contiguous counties, created primarily to prepare a regional transportation plan and to ensure local and regional coordination of transportation planning within a county or counties. An RTPO can cover both urban and rural areas and receives state funding in support of its planning efforts.
An RTPO must contain:
at least one complete county with a population of at least 100,000;
at least one complete county with a population of at least 75,000 and a Washington State Ferries terminal;
at least three counties regardless of population; or
at least one complete county with a population of at least 40,000 and covering a geographic area of at least 5,000 square miles.
An RTPO must also include at least 60 percent of the cities and towns in the region representing at least 75 percent of the cities' and towns' populations.
There are currently RTPOs covering 38 of the 39 counties in Washington. San Juan County is not part of any RTPO.
All RTPOs are encouraged to seek Native American tribal involvement under the Washington Administrative Code.
Summary:
In order to be eligible to receive funds that are appropriated to the Washington State Department of Transportation for local planning purposes, an RTPO must provide a reasonable opportunity for voting membership to any federally recognized tribe that holds reservation or trust land within the RTPO boundaries.
Regional Transportation Planning Organizations are also required to offer federally recognized tribes that have reservation or trust lands within the planning area of the RTPO but do not have voting membership in the RTPO an opportunity for voting membership every two years or when the composition of the board of the RTPO is modified in an interlocal agreement.
Votes on Final Passage:
House | 64 | 33 | |
Senate | 27 | 19 |
Effective: | August 1, 2019 |