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CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5370 Chapter 336, Laws of 2025 69TH LEGISLATURE 2025 REGULAR SESSION PORT COMMISSIONER TERMS—LENGTHENING TO SIX YEARS EFFECTIVE DATE: July 27, 2025 Passed by the Senate April 21, 2025 Yeas 48 Nays 0 JOHN LOVICK President of the Senate Passed by the House April 16, 2025 Yeas 88 Nays 9 LAURIE JINKINS Speaker of the House of Representatives CERTIFICATE I, Sarah Bannister, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5370 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. SARAH BANNISTER Secretary Secretary Approved May 17, 2025 3:13 PM FILED May 19, 2025 BOB FERGUSON Governor of the State of Washington Secretary of State State of Washington SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5370 AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE Passed Legislature - 2025 Regular Session State of Washington 69th Legislature 2025 Regular Session By Senate Local Government (originally sponsored by Senators Harris, Chapman, Krishnadasan, Lovelett, and Nobles) READ FIRST TIME 02/10/25. AN ACT Relating to lengthening port commissioner terms; and adding a new section to chapter 53.12 RCW. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON: NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 53.12 RCW to read as follows: (1) A ballot proposition to lengthen the terms of office of port commissioners from four years to six years must be submitted to the voters of any port district upon either resolution of the port commissioners or petition of voters of the port district proposing the increase in terms of office, which petition has been signed by voters of the port district equal in number to at least 10 percent of the number of voters in the port district voting at the last general election. (2) The petition must be submitted to the county auditor. If the petition was signed by sufficient valid signatures, the ballot proposition must be submitted at the next general election that occurs 60 or more days after the adoption of the resolution or submission of the petition. (3) If the ballot proposition lengthening the terms of office of port commissioners is approved by a simple majority vote of the voters voting on the proposition, the commissioner elected at that election is elected to a six-year term of office. The terms of office of the other commissioners are not lengthened. (4) If two commissioners are elected in that election or the next subsequent general election, the commissioner thus elected receiving the highest number of votes is elected to a six-year term of office and the other commissioner is elected to a four-year term of office. Each successor commissioner is elected to six-year terms. (5) This section does not apply to a port district that is required to maintain four-year terms under RCW 53.12.172 or to a port district that has five port commissioners. Passed by the Senate April 21, 2025. Passed by the House April 16, 2025. Approved by the Governor May 17, 2025. Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 19, 2025.
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