Committee advances bill to streamline annexation of urban growth territory to metropolitan service district

Summary

Senate Housing and Development Committee voted to pass House Bill 2356A to the floor with a due‑pass recommendation; the bill provides that territory annexed by a city within a metropolitan service district and inside the district's urban growth boundary is annexed to the district without further process.

The Senate Housing and Development Committee voted April 28 to advance House Bill 2356A to the Senate floor with a due‑pass recommendation. The bill would provide that when a city within a metropolitan service district annexes territory that lies within the district’s urban growth boundary, that territory is annexed to the metropolitan service district without further process.

Committee staff read a brief summary of the bill into the record noting the provision applies to lands annexed on or after the act’s effective date and that a revenue impact statement had been issued and the measure had no fiscal impact. Vice Chair Anderson moved to report the bill to the floor with a due‑pass recommendation; the clerk called the roll. Senators recorded as voting aye in the transcript were Brown, Nash, Patterson, Vice Chair Anderson and Chair Pham; the motion passed.

No amendments or conditions were recorded during the April 28 work session; the committee announced a senator would carry the bill to the floor.