The bill modernizes conservation district election procedures and changes reporting obligations for conservation district supervisors and certain candidates by amending multiple existing statutes. It amends chapter 89.08 RCW to alter how district governing boards are composed and how supervisor elections are conducted, and it amends and reenacts several provisions in chapter 29B RCW to add or clarify financial disclosure and campaign reporting rules. Specific cited sections amended include RCW 89.08.160, 89.08.190, 89.08.200, 29A.04.330, 29B.20.070, 29B.55.010, 29B.05.020, and 29B.25.010, and RCW 29B.55.020 is reenacted and amended. On the election and governance side, the bill requires the state conservation commission to appoint two supervisors who are qualified by training and experience to perform specialized skilled services; those two, together with three elected supervisors, make up the governing board. The bill sets filing and petition rules for initial and subsequent elections (for example, nomination petitions for three elected supervisors must be filed within 30 days after issuance of the certificate of organization and require at least 25 district electors’ signatures), specifies ballot order and initial staggered terms for new districts, requires boards to set election dates in the first quarter for expiring terms, permits a board by majority vote to instead conduct elections under Title 29A RCW (with required notice to the commission), and keeps four-year terms, vacancy-filling rules, quorum and removal procedures, and supervisor expense reimbursement. On financial disclosure and campaign reporting, the bill requires conservation district supervisors elected under chapter 89.08 RCW to comply with the annual personal financial affairs reporting requirement under RCW 29B.55.010 while exempting candidates for those supervisors from the annual personal financial reporting requirement. It clarifies that campaign finance reporting provisions apply to any candidate who receives or expects to receive $5,000 or more in contributions, sets filing windows and sworn statement requirements (annual filings for officials generally due January 1–April 15, candidate and appointee filings within two weeks of becoming a candidate or appointment with special rules for December appointees), requires filers to certify familiarity with certain statutes, and authorizes the commission to void certain orders after four years upon petition by affected political subdivisions with specified 60‑day filing deadlines for petitions to void exemptions. Sections 5–9 of the act are set to take effect January 1, 2027. Important details are missing from the provided text: the exact statutory language that implements the title’s stated requirement for financial disclosures from district supervisors and candidates is not included, several referenced subsections and amended RCW texts are incomplete, the full identity of "the commission" is not consistently specified in the excerpts, and the effective date for the rest of the act beyond sections 5–9 is not provided.

If enacted, conservation district governing boards will be reorganized so that two commissioners with specific training are appointed by the state conservation commission to sit with three elected supervisors, and districts will face clearer timelines and signature rules for nominating and staging initial and annual supervisor elections. That shifts more appointment, filing, and oversight work to the state conservation commission and county auditors (who must verify petitions and run special elections), and it gives district boards the practical option to switch to county-run elections under Title 29A RCW. Districts and candidates will need to follow new filing windows and petition thresholds (for example, nomination petitions must gather at least 25 district electors and certain petition drives can trigger wider reporting), which is likely to increase routine administrative work and modest compliance costs for small districts and their election officials. The bill also brings new financial-disclosure obligations: supervisors elected under chapter 89.08 must file annual sworn personal financial affairs reports under the stated filing windows, candidates are exempt from that annual filing, and campaign-finance reporting will apply to any candidate who receives or expects $5,000 or more. For districts with fewer than 2,000 registered voters, some reporting remains exempt unless a petition (15 percent of registered voters) forces disclosure, and appointed supervisors in small districts that use Title 29A elections are excluded from the personal-affairs rule. The text leaves out key details about the exact content of required disclosures and does not consistently name which commission handles some duties, so implementation practices and exact compliance burdens could remain uncertain.