BILL · 2019–20 SESSION

HB 2802: GMA hearings board admin.

Aligning the administration of the growth management hearings board with other boards within the environmental land use and hearings office by modifying requirements pertaining to growth management hearings board membership and the duties and responsibilities of members, streamlining procedures in cases before the growth management hearings board, and allowing the use of administrative appeals judges in growth management hearings board proceedings.

Summary

  • Changes the size of the Growth Management Hearings Board (GMHB) from seven members to five.
  • Requires that three of the members of the GMHB will be full-time members of the GMHB and must be attorneys.
  • Requires that the remaining two members of the GMHB must be former city or county elected officials, appointed on a rotating, case-by-case basis by the director of the Environmental Land Use Hearings Office to hear cases before the GMHB.

From the House Bill Analysis 2020 (HB 2802), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 22, 2020
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Joe Fitzgibbon (D-34)
Introduced
January 22, 2020 in the House
Last action
January 22, 2020
Requested by
Governor
Budget
Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to aligning the administration of the growth management hearings board with other boards within the environmental land use and hearings office by modifying requirements pertaining to growth management hearings board membership and the duties and responsibilities of members, streamlining procedures in cases before the growth management hearings board, and allowing the use of administrative appeals judges in growth management hearings board proceedings;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Joe Fitzgibbon (D-34)

1 co-sponsor (1 Democrat, 0 Republicans)

Votes

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

History

  1. First reading, referred to Environment & Energy.

HB 2802 in other sessions

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