WA People
BILL · 2003–04 SESSION

HB 1541: Watershed planning

Giving local citizens and governments authority to determine the allocation and management of water in a water resource inventory area.

Summary

  • Declares and reaffirms that a core principle embodied in chapter 90.82 RCW is that state agencies must work cooperatively with local citizens in a process of planning for future uses of water by giving local citizens and the governments closest to them the utmost opportunity in determining the future allocation and management of water in the WRIA or WRIAs being planned.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 29, 2003
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Jerome Delvin (R-8)
Introduced
January 29, 2003 in the House
Last action
January 12, 2004
Companion bill
SB 5027

AN ACT Relating to watershed planning;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Jerome Delvin (R-8)

5 co-sponsors (0 Democrats, 5 Republicans)

Bruce Chandler R-15Jim Clements R-14Daniel Newhouse R-15Gigi Talcott R-28Mary Skinner R-14

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. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  4. First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources.

HB 1541 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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