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                                                      HOUSE BILL 1263

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Representatives R. Fisher, Schmidt, R. Meyers and Zellinsky

Read first time 01/20/93.  Referred to Committee on State Government.

Specifying testing for state patrol promotion.

          AN ACT Relating to Washington state patrol examinations for promotion; and amending RCW 43.43.330.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  RCW 43.43.330 and 1985 c 4 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

          Appropriate examinations shall be conducted for the promotion of commissioned patrol officers to the rank of sergeant and lieutenant.  The examinations shall be prepared and conducted under the supervision of the chief of the Washington state patrol, who shall cause at least thirty days written notice thereof to be given to all patrol officers eligible for such examinations.  The written notice shall specify the expected type of examination and relative weights to be assigned if a combination of tests is to be used.  Examinations shall be given once every two years, or whenever the eligible list becomes exhausted as the case may be.  After the giving of each such examination a new eligible list shall be compiled replacing any existing eligible list for such rank.  Only grades attained in the last examination given for a particular rank shall be used in compiling each eligible list therefor.  The chief, or in his discretion a committee of three individuals appointed by him, shall prepare and conduct the examinations, and thereafter grade and evaluate them in accordance with the following provisions, or factors:  For promotion to the rank of sergeant or lieutenant((; (1) Service rating forty percent; (2) written examination thirty percent; (3) oral examination and interview twenty percent; (4) personnel record ten percent:  For promotion to the rank of sergeant; (1) Service rating fifty percent; (2) written examination fifty percent)), the examination shall consist of one or more of the following components:  (1) Oral examination; (2) written examination; (3) service rating; (4) personnel record; (5) assessment center or other valid tests that measures the skills, knowledge, and qualities needed to perform these jobs.  A cutoff score may be set for each testing component that allows only those scoring above the cutoff on one component to proceed to take a subsequent component.

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