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ENGROSSED
HOUSE BILL 1022
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Passed
Legislature - 1993 Regular Session
State of Washington 53rd
Legislature 1993 Regular Session
By
Prefiled 1/8/93. Read first time 01/11/93. Referred to
Committee on Corrections.
Adjusting the membership of the sentencing
guidelines commission.
AN ACT Relating to sentencing guidelines
commission membership; amending RCW 9.94A.060; and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1.
RCW 9.94A.060 and 1988 c 157 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) The commission consists of ((fifteen))
sixteen voting members, one of whom the governor shall designate as
chairperson. With the exception of ex officio voting members, the voting
members of the commission shall be appointed by the governor, subject to
confirmation by the senate.
(2) The voting membership consists of the
following:
(a) The head of the state agency having general
responsibility for adult correction programs, as an ex officio member;
(b) The director of financial management or
designee, as an ex officio member;
(c) Until ((July 1, 1992)) June 30,
1998, the chair of the indeterminate ((sentencing)) sentence
review board, as an ex officio member((, and thereafter));
(d) The chair of the clemency and
pardons board, as an ex officio member;
(((d))) (e) Two prosecuting attorneys;
(((e))) (f) Two attorneys with
particular expertise in defense work;
(((f))) (g) Four persons who are
superior court judges;
(((g))) (h) One person who is the
chief law enforcement officer of a county or city;
(((h))) (i) Three members of the
public who are not and have never been prosecutors, attorneys, judges, or law
enforcement officers.
In making the appointments, the governor shall seek the
recommendations of Washington prosecutors in respect to the prosecuting
attorney members, of the Washington state bar association in respect to the
attorney members, of the association of superior court judges in respect to the
members who are judges, and of the Washington association of sheriffs and
police chiefs in respect to the member who is a law enforcement officer.
(3) All voting members of the commission,
except ex officio voting members, shall serve terms of three years and until
their successors are appointed and confirmed. However, the governor shall
stagger the terms by appointing four of the initial members for terms of one
year, four for terms of two years, and four for terms of three years.
(4) The speaker of the house of representatives
and the president of the senate may each appoint two nonvoting members to the
commission, one from each of the two largest caucuses in each house. The
members so appointed shall serve two-year terms, or until they cease to be
members of the house from which they were appointed, whichever occurs first.
(5) The members of the commission shall be
reimbursed for travel expenses as provided in RCW 43.03.050 and 43.03.060.
Legislative members shall be reimbursed by their respective houses as provided
under RCW 44.04.120, as now existing or hereafter amended. Members shall be
compensated in accordance with RCW 43.03.250.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.
This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace,
health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public
institutions, and shall take effect immediately.
