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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5472
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Senate Committee on Governmental Operations (originally sponsored by Senators McCaslin and Madsen; by request of Department of General Administration).
Read first time February 20, 1991.
AN ACT Relating to cost recovery by the department of general administration; and amending RCW 43.01.090.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 43.01.090 and 1979 c 151 s 81 are each amended to read as follows:
The director of general administration may assess a charge against each state board, commission, agency, office, department, activity, or other occupant or user for payment of a proportion of costs for occupancy of buildings, structures, or facilities including but not limited to all costs of operating and maintaining such buildings, structures, or facilities and the repair, remodeling, or furnishing thereof and for the rendering of any service or the furnishing or providing of any supplies, equipment, or materials.
The
director of general administration may recover the full costs including
appropriate overhead charges of the foregoing by billing either quarterly or
semiannually as determined by the director including but not limited to
transfers upon accounts and advancements into the general administration
facilities and services revolving fund. Rates shall be established by the
director of general administration after consultation with the director of
financial management. The director of general administration may allot,
provide, or furnish any of such facilities, structures, services, equipment,
supplies, or materials to any other public service type occupant or user at
such rates or charges as are equitable and reasonably reflect the actual costs
of the services provided: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That the legislature, its duly
constituted committees, interim committees and other committees shall be
exempted from the provisions of this section. ((Billings shall be adjusted
at intervals of not to exceed six months to reflect any change in actual costs
relative to whatever estimates may have been made for budget purposes.)) The
director of general administration shall determine at the close of each
biennium, any amount billed in excess of actual costs. If the amount
determined is less than or equal to five percent of the biennial appropriation
for the general administration facilities and services revolving fund, it shall
be retained within that fund. If, however, the amount determined exceeds five
percent of the biennial appropriation, any amount above the five percent that
remains within the general administration facilities and services revolving
fund, shall be returned to the funds that had paid into the general
administration facilities and services revolving fund, in proportion to their
share of the quarterly billings for that biennium.
Upon receipt of such bill, each entity, occupant, or user shall cause a warrant or check in the amount thereof to be drawn in favor of the department of general administration which shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the general administration facilities and services revolving fund established in RCW 43.19.500 unless the director of financial management has authorized another method for payment of costs.