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BILL · 2005–06 SESSION

SB 5271: Tidelands & shorelands

Allowing certain state-owned filled tidelands and shorelands to be designated as aquatic investment properties.

Summary

  • The Board of Natural Resources is given authority to designate aquatic investment properties which could be managed for investment value or sold and money placed in a new account to pay for purchase of replacement tidelands and shorelands. The Department must sustain or increase the aquatic land base for state owned lands.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 19, 2005
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed Senate
  4. Passed House
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Ken Jacobsen (D-46)
Introduced
January 19, 2005 in the Senate
Last action
January 9, 2006
Requested by
State agency
Companion bill
HB 1493
Budget
Makes appropriations · Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to the purchase of tidelands and shorelands and authorizing the sale of nonriparian state-owned filled tidelands or shorelands, that are currently upland in nature and no longer provide the ecological functions and public benefits normally intrinsic to functioning aquatic lands as described in RCW 79.90.450 and 79.90.455;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Ken Jacobsen (D-46)

7 co-sponsors (4 Democrats, 3 Republicans)

Bob Oke R-26Phil Rockefeller D-23Bob Morton R-7Dan Swecker R-20Mark Doumit D-19Marilyn Rasmussen D-2Paull Shin D-21

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 Natural Resources, Ocean & Recreation.

SB 5271 in other sessions

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