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HOUSE BILL 1306
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Representatives Nelson, R. Fisher, Cooper, Wineberry and R. Johnson.
Read first time January 25, 1991. Referred to Committee on Transportation.
AN ACT Relating to the secretary of transportation; and amending RCW 47.01.041 and 47.01.061.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 47.01.041 and 1983 1st ex.s. c 53 s 28 are each amended to read as follows:
The
executive head of the department of transportation shall be the secretary of
transportation, who shall be appointed by the transportation commission, and
shall be paid a salary to be fixed by the governor in accordance with the
provisions of RCW 43.03.040. The secretary shall be an ex officio member of
the commission without a vote. The secretary shall be the chief executive
officer of the commission and be responsible to it, and shall be guided by
policies established by it. The secretary shall serve until removed by the
commission, but only for incapacity, incompetence, neglect of duty, malfeasance
in office, ((or)) failure to carry out the commission's policies, or
failure of the evaluation process specified in RCW 47.01.061. Before a
motion for dismissal shall be acted on by the commission, the secretary shall
be granted a hearing on formal written charges before the full commission. An
action by the commission to remove the secretary shall be final.
Sec. 2. RCW 47.01.061 and 1987 c 364 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
The commission shall meet at such times as it deems advisable but at least once every month. It may adopt its own rules and regulations and may establish its own procedure. It shall act collectively in harmony with recorded resolutions or motions adopted by majority vote of at least four members. The commission may appoint an administrative secretary, and shall elect one of its members chairman for a term of one year. The chairman shall be able to vote on all matters before the commission. The commission may from time to time retain planners, consultants, and other technical personnel to advise it in the performance of its duties.
The commission shall submit to each regular session of the legislature held in an odd-numbered year its own budget proposal necessary for the commission's operations separate from that proposed for the department. The commission shall establish criteria for evaluation of the secretary and shall annually evaluate the secretary.
Each member of the commission shall be compensated in accordance with RCW 43.03.250 and shall be reimbursed for actual necessary traveling and other expenses in going to, attending, and returning from meetings of the commission, and actual and necessary traveling and other expenses incurred in the discharge of such duties as may be requested by a majority vote of the commission or by the secretary of transportation, but in no event shall a commissioner be compensated in any year for more than one hundred twenty days, except the chairman of the commission who may be paid compensation for not more than one hundred fifty days. Service on the commission shall not be considered as service credit for the purposes of any public retirement system.