HOUSE BILL REPORT

HB 1895

BYRepresentatives Haugen and Ferguson

Modifying assessments against public lands.

House Committe on Local Government

Majority Report:  Do pass.  (14)

      Signed by Representatives Haugen, Chair; Cooper, Vice Chair; Ferguson, Ranking Republican Member; Horn, Nealey, Nelson, Nutley, Phillips, Raiter, Rayburn, Todd, Wolfe, Wood and Zellinsky.

House Staff:Steve Lundin (786-7127)

AS PASSED HOUSE MARCH 9, 1989

BACKGROUND:

State-owned land is declared to be subject to special assessments imposed for the costs of local improvements.

A special notification process exists for notice to be provided to the state whenever a local government proposes to impose special assessments on state-owned land.  The special notice must be forwarded by registered or certified mail to the director of financial management and to the chief administrative officer of the state agency having jurisdiction over the land.

SUMMARY:

The special notice procedure for local governments to notify the state that the local government is intending to impose special assessments on state-owned land is made applicable to rates and charges that are proposed to be imposed on state land by a local government, if state lands are subject to such rates and charges.

Fiscal Note:      Not Requested.

House Committee ‑ Testified For:    Pat McElroy, Department of Natural Resources.

House Committee - Testified Against:      None Presented.

House Committee - Testimony For:    This will require the correct state agency to be notified or the penalties for late payment are not applicable.

House Committee - Testimony Against:      None Presented.