CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

ENGROSSED SECOND SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1317

Chapter 257, Laws of 2010

61st Legislature
2010 Regular Session



PUBLIC RECORDS DISCLOSURE--CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCY EMPLOYEES



EFFECTIVE DATE: 06/10/10

Passed by the House March 6, 2010
  Yeas 95   Nays 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate March 4, 2010
  Yeas 45   Nays 1


BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
 
CERTIFICATE

I, Barbara Baker, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED SECOND SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1317 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.


BARBARA BAKER
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Chief Clerk
Approved March 31, 2010, 3:43 p.m.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
April 1, 2010







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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ENGROSSED SECOND SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1317
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AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

Passed Legislature - 2010 Regular Session
State of Washington61st Legislature2010 Regular Session

By House Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Representatives Kessler, Rodne, Simpson, O'Brien, Hunt, Hurst, Ormsby, Moeller, Chase, Sullivan, and Kelley)

READ FIRST TIME 02/09/10.   



     AN ACT Relating to disclosure of public records containing information used to locate or identify employees of criminal justice agencies; and amending RCW 42.56.250.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 42.56.250 and 2006 c 209 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:
     The following employment and licensing information is exempt from public inspection and copying under this chapter:
     (1) Test questions, scoring keys, and other examination data used to administer a license, employment, or academic examination;
     (2) All applications for public employment, including the names of applicants, resumes, and other related materials submitted with respect to an applicant;
     (3) The residential addresses, residential telephone numbers, personal wireless telephone numbers, personal electronic mail addresses, social security numbers, and emergency contact information of employees or volunteers of a public agency, and the names, dates of birth, residential addresses, residential telephone numbers, personal wireless telephone numbers, personal electronic mail addresses, social security numbers, and emergency contact information of dependents of employees or volunteers of a public agency that are held by any public agency in personnel records, public employment related records, or volunteer rosters, or are included in any mailing list of employees or volunteers of any public agency. For purposes of this subsection, "employees" includes independent provider home care workers as defined in RCW 74.39A.240;
     (4) Information that identifies a person who, while an agency employee: (a) Seeks advice, under an informal process established by the employing agency, in order to ascertain his or her rights in connection with a possible unfair practice under chapter 49.60 RCW against the person; and (b) requests his or her identity or any identifying information not be disclosed;
     (5) Investigative records compiled by an employing agency conducting a current investigation of a possible unfair practice under chapter 49.60 RCW or of a possible violation of other federal, state, or local laws prohibiting discrimination in employment; ((and))
     (6) Except as provided in RCW 47.64.220, salary and employee benefit information collected under RCW 47.64.220(1) and described in RCW 47.64.220(2); and
     (7) Photographs and month and year of birth in the personnel files of employees and workers of criminal justice agencies as defined in RCW 10.97.030. The news media, as defined in RCW 5.68.010(5), shall have access to the photographs and full date of birth
. For the purposes of this subsection, news media does not include any person or organization of persons in the custody of a criminal justice agency as defined in RCW 10.97.030.


         Passed by the House March 6, 2010.
         Passed by the Senate March 4, 2010.
         Approved by the Governor March 31, 2010.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 1, 2010.