WA People
BILL · 2001–02 SESSION

HB 1875: Municipal water suppliers

Clarifying rights and duties of municipal water suppliers.

Summary

  • $ Explicitly adopts a growing communities doctrine that governs water rights for municipal water supplies and allows municipal water suppliers to acquire and maintain water rights for reasonably anticipated future needs.
  • $ Allows such a municipal water use to take place under such a right within 50 or more years of the latest approval of certain water system plans and for the use to take place within the service areas identified in such plans.
  • $ Identifies the water right holders who are municipal water suppliers for these purposes.
  • $ With certain exceptions, prohibits the Department of Ecology (DOE) from rescinding or reissuing any water right certificate.
  • $ Requires the Department of Health (DOH) to adopt as rules conservation and system efficiency standards that apply to each municipal water supplier with at least 1000 service connections.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedFeb 7, 2001
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Gary Chandler (R-13)
Introduced
February 7, 2001 in the House
Last action
January 14, 2002
Budget
Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to municipal water suppliers;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Gary Chandler (R-13)

2 co-sponsors (1 Democrat, 1 Republican)

Kelli Linville D-42Beverly Woods R-23

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. First reading, referred to Agriculture & Ecology.

HB 1875 in other sessions

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