This bill amends RCW 35.57.010 to change how public facilities districts are formed and governed. It removes a prior deadline that required a district formed under subsection (1)(f) to be created before July 1, 2026. The amended statute specifies which cities, towns, counties, or contiguous groups may create or jointly operate a public facilities district and that district boundaries must be coextensive with the creating jurisdiction(s). The law declares a public facilities district to be a municipal corporation and a state taxing authority, grants the district typical corporate powers (including hiring staff, entering contracts, suing and being sued), permits acquisition and transfer of real and personal property, and bars direct or collateral legal challenges to a purportedly authorized district more than 30 days after the district’s creation by the legislative authority. The amendment prescribes board composition and appointment procedures for different types of districts: a single city or town district has a five-member board; a contiguous group of cities or towns has seven members; a city or cities with county or counties has seven members; and districts under subsection (1)(e) have an odd-numbered board of not more than nine members composed of legislative authority members. It requires initial staggering of terms (one initial appointee for one year, one for two years, one for three years, and the remainder for four years), prohibits legislative-authority appointees from being members of that appointing legislative authority, requires that appointments based on recommendations come from listed local organizations, and for boards under (1)(d)(ii) requires equal representation by each participating city or town and a procedure to fill remaining vacancies. For a board formed under (1)(d) to submit a tax or funding proposition under RCW 82.14.048, a majority of members representing or appointed by each participating legislative authority must agree to submit it. This is a modification of existing law that makes procedural and governance changes, removes a creation deadline, clarifies the district’s constitutional status and powers, and limits the time for legal challenges. The extracted text does not include an effective date or other sections of the bill, and it does not explain how these amendments relate to the bill title’s reference to regional aquatics and sports facilities. Information about the prior text of RCW 35.57.010 or the legislative history of the deleted deadline is not included.

If enacted, cities, towns, counties, and contiguous groups would have an ongoing, clearer path to form public facilities districts (the bill removes a prior creation deadline) and those districts would be explicitly treated as municipal, independent taxing authorities with normal corporate powers like hiring staff, contracting, and buying or selling property. Local governments would need to follow detailed board size and appointment rules (including staggered initial terms, prohibiting appointing current legislators to those seats, and taking recommendations from local organizations), and the districts would face a narrow 30‑day window for legal challenges after creation, which reduces the chance of delayed litigation. The people most affected are local legislative authorities, which gain a durable option to create and finance regional facilities and would pick up new responsibilities and potential costs for staffing, governance, property transactions, and tax or financing actions; local organizations would gain formal influence by submitting board recommendations; and voters would still decide funding propositions but only after a majority of board members representing each participating jurisdiction agree to submit them. Important details are missing here—there’s no effective date shown, no specific definition or funding terms for the referenced “regional aquatics and sports facilities,” and no financial limits or tax rate information—so the exact fiscal impacts and timeline remain uncertain.