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ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 1022
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Passed Legislature - 1993 Regular Session
State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993
Regular Session
By
Prefiled 1/8/93. Read first time 01/11/93.
Referred to Committee on Corrections.
Adjusting the membership of the
sentencing guidelines commission.
AN ACT Relating to
sentencing guidelines commission membership; amending RCW 9.94A.060; and
declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 9.94A.060 and 1988 c
157 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) The commission
consists of ((fifteen)) sixteen voting members, one of whom the
governor shall designate as chairperson. With the exception of ex officio
voting members, the voting members of the commission shall be appointed by the
governor, subject to confirmation by the senate.
(2) The voting
membership consists of the following:
(a) The head of the
state agency having general responsibility for adult correction programs, as an
ex officio member;
(b) The director of
financial management or designee, as an ex officio member;
(c) Until ((July 1,
1992)) June 30, 1998, the chair of the indeterminate ((sentencing))
sentence review board, as an ex officio member((, and thereafter));
(d) The chair of
the clemency and pardons board, as an ex officio member;
(((d))) (e)
Two prosecuting attorneys;
(((e))) (f)
Two attorneys with particular expertise in defense work;
(((f))) (g)
Four persons who are superior court judges;
(((g))) (h)
One person who is the chief law enforcement officer of a county or city;
(((h))) (i)
Three members of the public who are not and have never been prosecutors,
attorneys, judges, or law enforcement officers.
In making the appointments,
the governor shall seek the recommendations of Washington prosecutors in
respect to the prosecuting attorney members, of the Washington state bar
association in respect to the attorney members, of the association of superior
court judges in respect to the members who are judges, and of the Washington
association of sheriffs and police chiefs in respect to the member who is a law
enforcement officer.
(3) All voting members
of the commission, except ex officio voting members, shall serve terms of three
years and until their successors are appointed and confirmed. However, the
governor shall stagger the terms by appointing four of the initial members for
terms of one year, four for terms of two years, and four for terms of three years.
(4) The speaker of the
house of representatives and the president of the senate may each appoint two
nonvoting members to the commission, one from each of the two largest caucuses
in each house. The members so appointed shall serve two-year terms, or until
they cease to be members of the house from which they were appointed, whichever
occurs first.
(5) The members of the
commission shall be reimbursed for travel expenses as provided in RCW 43.03.050
and 43.03.060. Legislative members shall be reimbursed by their respective
houses as provided under RCW 44.04.120, as now existing or hereafter amended.
Members shall be compensated in accordance with RCW 43.03.250.
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 2. This act is necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support
of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take
effect immediately.
