BILL · 2005–06 SESSION

HB 1505: Comprehensive plans

Changing provision relating to comprehensive plan amendments initiated by local government.

Summary

  • Expands the list of exceptions to the general rule requiring that a GMA comprehensive plan be amended no more than once per year, thus allowing additional amendments regarding: 1) the adoption of a "planned action ordinance"; 2) the annexation of unincorporated areas located within an urban growth boundary; and 3) provisions for the creation of fifty or more jobs within an urban growth boundary and which provide employee compensation greater than the regional median household income.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 26, 2005
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Jim Moeller (D-49)
Introduced
January 26, 2005 in the House
Last action
January 9, 2006

AN ACT Relating to comprehensive plan amendments initiated by local government;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Jim Moeller (D-49)

3 co-sponsors (1 Democrat, 2 Republicans)

Votes

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

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  2. First reading, referred to Local Government.

HB 1505 in other sessions

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

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