Finds that chapter 34.05 RCW, the administrative procedure act, promotes consistency in state agency administrative actions and promotes accountability to and oversight by the public of state agency actions.

Finds that the administrative procedure act provides certainty and consistency in the procedures for judicial review of agency actions obtainable under the act and that the scope of agency actions subject to the act should not be unduly narrowed. In Department of Natural Resources v. State Owned Forests (Court of Appeals Division One; No. 52550-7-I, November 29, 2004), the court held that a public land resource planning decision by the department of natural resources was not agency action subject to the administrative procedure act. The legislature intends by this act to ensure that in all future planning decisions the requirements of the administrative procedure act will be applicable.