S-0599.3
SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5186
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
By Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education (originally sponsored by Senators Krishnadasan, Wellman, Orwall, Riccelli, Chapman, Hasegawa, Frame, Hansen, Liias, Saldaña, Cortes, Dhingra, Lovelett, Nobles, Shewmake, Slatter, Stanford, Valdez, and C. Wilson)
READ FIRST TIME 02/14/25.
AN ACT Relating to local funding for school district facilities; amending RCW 28A.535.020 , 28A.535.050 , 84.52.056 , 39.36.020 , 28A.530.020 , 28A.315.285 , 82.02.050 , 82.02.060 , 82.02.070 , 82.02.090 , and 36.70A.211 ; repealing RCW 82.02.110 ; and providing a contingent effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 28A.535.020 and 1996 c 48 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
Whenever the board of directors of any school district shall deem it advisable to validate and ratify the indebtedness mentioned in RCW 28A.535.010 , they shall provide therefor by resolution, which shall be entered on the records of such school district, which resolution shall provide for the holding of an election for the purpose of submitting the question of validating and ratifying the indebtedness so incurred to the voters of such school district for approval or disapproval, and if at such election (( three-fifths )) a majority of the voters in such school district voting at such election shall vote in favor of the validation and ratification of such indebtedness, then such indebtedness so validated and ratified and every part thereof existing at the time of the adoption of said resolution shall thereby become and is hereby declared to be validated and ratified and a binding obligation upon such school district.