SB 5933 — Establishing a school seismic safety grant program.

S-4239.1S-3665.2 SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5933 State of Washington 67th Legislature 2022 Regular Session By Senate Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Frockt, Schoesler, Conway, Honeyford, Keiser, Lovelett, Mullet, Pedersen, Rolfes, and J.

Wilson)Wilson READRead FIRSTfirst TIMEtime 02/07/22.01/24/22.

Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.

andadding creatinga new sections.chapter to Title 43 RCW;

creating a new section;

providing a contingent effective date;

and providing for submission of certain sections of this act to a vote of the people.

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1A SSBschool 5933district or state tribal education compact school is eligible to receive a school seismic safety grant for remediation of seismic or tsunami hazards in qualifying buildings that meet the following criteria:

(b) "Remediation" means solutions that mitigate or eliminate site specific seismic or tsunami hazards and may include building relocation or vertical evacuation towers if related to a tsunami hazard.

(c) "Total project cost" means directthe andremediation associatedsolution indirectsquare costsfootage as approved by the advisory committee multiplied by the statewide average cost per square foot for new construction or modernization at the remediationtime solutionof asthe approvedbid byfor projects participating in the advisoryschool committee.construction assistance program for that same year.

Associated indirect costs can include site acquisition and development costs for approved building relocations.

The combined direct and associated indirect costs cannot exceed the equivalent combined direct and associated indirect costs for building projects participating in the school construction assistance program for that same year.

The office of the superintendent of public instruction must provide administrative and staff support to the advisory committee and p.consult with the advisory committee to design a grant application process with specific criteria for prioritizing grant requests.

2p. SSB 5933 consult with the advisory committee to design a grant application process with specific criteria for prioritizing grant requests.

2 SB 5933 (b) The advisory committee must submit a prioritized list of grants to the superintendent of public instruction.

(b) The superintendent of public instruction and the governor may determine the level of funding in their omnibus capitaloperating appropriations act requests to support grants under this section, but their funding requests must follow the prioritized list prepared by the advisory committee unless new information determines that a specific project is no longer viable as proposed.

(6) SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AND SMALL SCHOOL DISTRICT MODERNIZATION GRANT PROGRAM.

(a) The full administrative and procedural process of school construction assistance program funding under RCW 28A.525.162 through 28A.525.180 and the small school district modernization grant program funding under RCW 28A.525.159 may be streamlined by the office of the superintendent of public instruction in order to coordinate eligible school construction assistance program funding and small school district modernization grant program funding with the school seismic safety grants.

Such coordination must ensure that total state funding from allboth three grants does not exceed total project costs minus available local resources.

p.(b) Projects seeking school seismic safety grants must meet the requirements for a school construction assistance program grant except for the following:

3 SSB 5933 (b) Projects seeking school seismic safety grants must meet the requirements for a school construction assistance program grant except for the following:

However, availablep. school district and state-tribal education compact school resources are considered in prioritizing school seismic safety grants.

3 SB 5933 available school district and state-tribal education compact school resources are considered in prioritizing school seismic safety grants.

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4 SSB 5933 NEW SECTION.

The(1) For the purposes of providing needed capital improvements for the school seismic safety grant programprogram, accountthe state finance committee is createdauthorized into issue general obligation bonds of the state treasury.of Washington in the sum of $500,000,000, or so much thereof as may be required, to finance all or a part of the cost of these projects and all costs incidental thereto.

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4 SB 5933 under the authority of this section shall be known as Washington school seismic safety bonds.

(2) Bonds authorized in this section must be sold in the manner, at the time or times, in amounts, and at such prices as the state finance committee determines.

(3) The authorization to issue bonds contained in this chapter does not expire until the full authorization has been issued.

(4) No bonds authorized in this section may be offered for sale without prior legislative appropriation of the net proceeds of the sale of the bonds.

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If the people ratify section 3 of this act as specified under section 11 of this act, section 3 of this act takes effect July 1, 2023.

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