Increasing opportunities for cities to utilize county resources for road construction and maintenance.

 H-1379.1

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1529

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2025 Regular Session

By House Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Griffey, Stuebe, Couture, and Waters)

READ FIRST TIME 02/14/25.

AN ACT Relating to increasing opportunities for cities to utilize county resources for road construction and maintenance; amending RCW 35.77.030 ; reenacting and amending RCW 35.22.620 and 35.23.352 ; and creating a new section.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that most counties have road construction crews that have the equipment and skills to construct and maintain roads. It is the intent of the legislature to make it easier for counties, through agreements with cities and towns, to provide repairs, striping, maintenance, and construction work on roads throughout the county in order to keep the highway system in a state of good repair. The legislature finds counties can be a particularly important resource in rural communities where otherwise obtaining such services is challenging.

Sec. 2. RCW 35.22.620 and 2023 c 395 s 20 and 2023 c 255 s 3 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows: