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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1525
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Schmidt, Peery, Wood, Brumsickle, Zellinsky, Wilson, Anderson and Neher).
Read first time February 27, 1991.
AN ACT Relating to government travel and subsistence rates for educational employees; adding a new section to chapter 28A.310 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 28A.400 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 43.19 RCW; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that school districts and educational service districts are funded primarily through state dollars, that state funds are to be used in the most efficient manner, that all travel expenses paid with state dollars should be treated similarly, and that the benefits of the preferred rates obtained by the state of Washington from various suppliers for travel expenses should extend to all travel expenses funded by state dollars.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 28A.310 RCW to read as follows:
Any educational service district in this state may charge all travel expenses incurred by its employees and board of director members during official travel which is funded by state dollars and is authorized under the rules and regulations of the respective educational service district to the office of the superintendent of public instruction and obtain the benefit of the state of Washington preferred rates for travel expenses. Upon submittal of a travel voucher which establishes that the employee or board member will use or has used the supplier providing the state-preferred rate by an educational service district to the office of the superintendent of public instruction, the office of the superintendent of public instruction shall pay such travel expenses at the state-preferred rate. The office of the superintendent of public instruction shall bill the educational service district for the expenses paid and the educational service district shall reimburse the office of the superintendent of public instruction for all such expenses paid.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. A new section is added to chapter 28A.400 RCW to read as follows:
Any school district in this state may charge all travel expenses incurred by its employees and board of director members during official travel which is funded by state dollars and is authorized under the rules and regulations of the respective school district to the office of the superintendent of public instruction and obtain the benefit of the state of Washington preferred rates for travel expenses. Upon submittal of a travel voucher which establishes that the employee or board member will use or has used the supplier providing the state-preferred rate by a school district to the office of the superintendent of public instruction, the office of the superintendent of public instruction shall pay such travel expenses at the state‑preferred rate. The office of the superintendent of public instruction shall bill the school district for the expenses paid and the school district shall reimburse the office of the superintendent of public instruction for all such expenses paid.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 4. A new section is added to chapter 43.19 RCW to read as follows:
The state of Washington, through the department of general administration, is authorized and directed to take all reasonable and necessary action to include educational service districts and school districts as direct beneficiaries of any contract negotiated by the state of Washington for preferred rates regarding travel, lodging, and subsistence.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 5. If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected.