CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

HOUSE BILL 1558

Chapter 196, Laws of 1991

52nd Legislature

1991 Regular Session

STATE PATROL COMPENSATION SURVEY

EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/28/91

Passed by the House March 12, 1991

Yeas 93 Nays 0

JOE KING

Speaker of the

House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate April 10, 1991

Yeas 43 Nays 0

JOEL PRITCHARD

President of the Senate

Approved May 15, 1991

BOOTH GARDNER

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.

ALAN THOMPSON Chief Clerk

FILED

May 15, 1991 - 11:50 a.m.

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.

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.))