CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1407

                        53rd Legislature

                      1993 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 10, 1993   Yeas 97   Nays 0 Speaker of the        House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 16, 1993   Yeas 43   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1407 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                                                      HOUSE BILL 1407

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                                                       Passed Legislature - 1993 Regular Session

State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Representatives Sommers, Silver, Chandler, Fuhrman, Locke, Ogden and Brough; by request of Legislative Budget Committee

Read first time 01/27/93.  Referred to Committee on State Government.

Changing duties of the legislative auditor and attorney general regarding the legislative budget committee.

          AN ACT Relating to duties of the legislative auditor and the attorney general; and amending RCW 43.88.310.

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

        Sec. 1.  RCW 43.88.310 and 1977 ex.s. c 320 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:

          (1) The legislative auditor, with the concurrence of the legislative budget committee, may file with the attorney general any audit exceptions or other findings of any performance audit, management study, or special report prepared for the legislative budget committee, any standing or special committees of the house or senate, or the entire legislature which indicate a violation of RCW 43.88.290, or any other act of malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance on the part of any state officer or employee.

          (2) The attorney general shall promptly review each filing received from the legislative auditor and ((proceed to)) may act thereon as provided in RCW 43.88.300, or any other applicable statute authorizing enforcement proceedings by the attorney general.  ((If for any reason the attorney general is unable to proceed)) The attorney general shall ((report this fact and the reasons therefor to)) advise the legislative budget committee of the status of exceptions or findings referred under this section.

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