S-4746.2
SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6253
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2026 Regular Session
By Senate Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators Krishnadasan, Conway, Dhingra, Hasegawa, Liias, Lovelett, Nobles, Saldaña, Stanford, Valdez, and C. Wilson)
READ FIRST TIME 02/06/26.
AN ACT Relating to public transportation benefit area governing bodies; amending RCW 36.57A.050 ; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature believes that governing bodies of public transportation benefit areas should reflect the communities that they serve. The legislature finds that these governing bodies have included a nonvoting labor representative since 2010, and that these representatives have made valuable contributions to the governing bodies. Therefore, in order to recognize the value of the labor representative's input and to ensure that public transportation benefit areas work for and represent the communities they serve, it is the intent of the legislature to ensure the labor representative on public transportation benefit area governing bodies is provided full participation in the debate and discussions regarding, but not limited to, service plan development, operations, fiscal planning, and boundary and service management.
Sec. 2. RCW 36.57A.050 and 2025 c 230 s 1 are each amended to read as follows: