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SUBSTITUTE
HOUSE BILL 1926
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Passed
Legislature - 1993 Regular Session
State
of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993
Regular Session
By
Read
first time 03/03/93.
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; two copies to the state library; 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)) set by the
chief clerk of the house of representatives and the secretary of the senate
after consulting with the state printer to determine reasonable costs
associated with the production of the journals, 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 law 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.
