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BILL · 2017–18 SESSION

HB 2216: School siting/GMA

Addressing the siting of schools and school facilities outside the urban growth area that serve urban resident students.

Summary

  • Provides that the Growth Management Act (GMA) does not prohibit a county planning fully under the GMA from authorizing the siting in a rural area of a school that serves students who reside within an Urban Growth Area (UGA), and does not prohibit a local jurisdiction from extending utilities to serve such a school, if certain requirements are met.
  • Includes, in the list of requirements that must be met, the following requirements: the utilities must be limited to the size needed to support the long-term needs of the school; land surrounding the school must maintain its rural character; the school district must have made a finding that there is no suitable land within the UGA for the school; the school district must have conducted a total cost analysis of potential school sites; and any impacts associated with the siting of the school are mitigated as required by the State Environmental Policy Act.

From the House Bill Report (HB 2216), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedMay 23, 2017
  2. Out of committeeMay 23, 2017
  3. Passed Housestopped here
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Joe Fitzgibbon (D-34)
Introduced
May 23, 2017 in the House
Last action
January 8, 2018
Requested by
Governor
Companion bill
SB 5942

AN ACT Relating to limiting the size and scale of utilities to support schools sited in rural areas serving urban resident students while maintaining the rural character and housing density on land surrounding schools sited in rural areas and requiring analyses by school districts demonstrating the absence of suitable land within the urban growth area for school siting;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Joe Fitzgibbon (D-34)

Votes

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

History

  1. Referred to Environment.
  2. Rules Committee relieved of further consideration.
  3. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  4. Returned to Rules Committee for second reading.
  5. Read first time, rules suspended, and placed on second reading calendar.

HB 2216 in other sessions

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