CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1558

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 12, 1991

  Yeas 93   Nays 0

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate April 10, 1991

  Yeas 43   Nays 0

President of the Senate

Approved

Governor of the State of Washington

CERTIFICATE

I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1558 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

Chief Clerk

                                     FILED         

                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington  

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                                  HOUSE BILL 1558

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                             AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Representatives R. Meyers, R. Fisher, Schmidt, Orr, Hargrove, G. Fisher, Cooper, Zellinsky, Holland, Winsley, Betrozoff and Ludwig; by request of Legislative Transportation Committee.

Read first time February 1, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Transportation.Improving the state patrol compensation survey.

     AN ACT Relating to the compensation survey for the state patrol; and amending RCW 41.06.167.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 41.06.167 and 1986 c 158 s 7 are each amended to read as follows:

     The department of personnel shall undertake comprehensive ((salary and fringe benefit)) compensation surveys for officers and entry-level officer candidates of the Washington state patrol, with such surveys to be conducted in the year prior to the convening of every other one hundred five day regular session of the state legislature.  In the year prior to the convening of each one hundred five day regular session during which a comprehensive ((salary and fringe benefit)) compensation survey is not conducted, the department shall conduct a trend ((salary and fringe benefit)) compensation survey.  This survey shall measure average ((salary and fringe benefit)) compensation movement which has occurred since the last comprehensive ((salary and fringe benefit)) compensation survey was conducted.  The results of each comprehensive and trend survey shall be completed and forwarded by September 30th, after review and ((concurrence)) preparation of recommendations by the chief of the Washington state patrol, to the governor and director of financial management for their use in preparing budgets to be submitted to the succeeding legislature.  A copy of the data and supporting documentation shall be furnished by the department of personnel to the legislative transportation committee and the standing committees for appropriations of the senate and house of representatives.  The office of financial management shall analyze the survey results and conduct investigations which may be necessary to arbitrate differences between interested parties regarding the accuracy of collected survey data and the use of such data for salary adjustment.

     Surveys conducted by the department of personnel for the Washington state patrol shall be undertaken in a manner consistent with statistically accurate sampling techniques, including comparisons of medians, base ranges, and weighted averages of salaries.  The surveys shall compare competitive labor markets of law enforcement officers.  This service performed by the department of personnel shall be on a reimbursable basis in accordance with the provisions of RCW 41.06.080 ((as now existing or hereafter amended)).

     A comprehensive ((salary and fringe benefits)) compensation survey plan and the recommendations of the chief of the Washington state patrol shall be submitted jointly by the department of personnel and the Washington state patrol to the director of financial management, the legislative transportation committee, the committee on ways and means of the senate, and the committee on appropriations of the house of representatives six months before the beginning of each periodic survey.

     ((The first comprehensive salary and fringe benefit survey required by this section shall be completed and forwarded to the governor and the director of financial management by September 30, 1986.  The first trend salary and fringe benefit survey required by this section shall be completed and forwarded to the governor and the director of financial management by September 30, 1988.))