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                                                      HOUSE BILL 1926

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Representatives Anderson and Reams

Read first time 02/17/93.  Referred to Committee on State Government.

Regulating the sale and distribution of state publications.

          AN ACT Relating to the sale and distribution of state publications; and amending RCW 40.04.090.

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

        Sec. 1.  RCW 40.04.090 and 1982 1st ex.s. c 32 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

          The house and senate journals shall be distributed and/or sold by the state law librarian as follows:

          (1) Subject to subsection (5) of this section, sets shall be distributed as follows:  One set to each secretary and assistant secretary of the senate, chief clerk and assistant to the chief clerk of the house of representatives, and to each minute clerk and sergeant-at-arms of the two branches of the legislature of which they occupy the offices and positions mentioned.  One to each requesting official whose office is created by the Constitution, and one to each requesting state department director; three copies to the University of Washington law library; two copies to the University of Washington library; one to the King county law library; one to the Washington State University library; one to the library of each of the regional universities and to The Evergreen State College; one to the law library of Gonzaga University law school; one to the law library of the University of Puget Sound law school; one to the law libraries of any accredited law school as hereafter established in this state; and one to each free public library in the state which requests it.

          (2) House and senate journals of the preceding regular session during an odd- or even-numbered year, and of any intervening special session, shall be provided for use of legislators in such numbers as directed by the chief clerk of the house of representatives and secretary of the senate((; and sufficient sets shall be retained for the use of the state law library)).

          (3) Sufficient sets shall be retained for the use of the state law library.  Surplus sets of the house and senate journals shall be sold and delivered by the state law librarian((, in which case the price shall be thirty-five dollars plus postage for those of the regular sessions during an odd- or even-numbered year, and)) at a price determined by the state printer to cover the costs of paper, printing, binding and postage ((for those of the special sessions, when separately bound)), and the proceeds therefrom shall be paid to the state treasurer for the general fund.

          (4) The state law librarian is authorized to exchange copies of the house and senate journals for similar journals of other states, territories, and/or governments, or for other legal materials, and to make such other and further distribution of them as in his or her judgment seems proper.

(5) Periodically the state librarian may canvas those entitled to receive copies under this section, and may reduce or eliminate the number of copies distributed to anyone who so concurs.

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