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SENATE
BILL 5070
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Passed
Legislature - 1993 Regular Session
State
of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993
Regular Session
By
Read
first time 01/12/93. Referred to Committee on Labor & Commerce.
Using labor relations consultants.
AN ACT Relating to labor relations consultants;
amending RCW 43.09.230; and creating a new section.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.
The legislature finds and declares that the use of outside consultants is an
increasing element in public sector labor relations. The public has a right to
be kept informed about the role of outside consultants in public sector labor
relations. The purpose of this act is to help ensure that public information
is available.
Sec. 2.
RCW 43.09.230 and 1989 c 168 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
The state auditor shall require from every
taxing district and other political subdivisions financial reports covering the
full period of each fiscal year, in accordance with the forms and methods
prescribed by the state auditor, which shall be uniform for all accounts of the
same class.
Such reports shall be prepared, certified, and
filed with the division within one hundred fifty days after the close of each
fiscal year.
The reports shall contain accurate statements,
in summarized form, of all collections made, or receipts received, by the
officers from all sources; all accounts due the public treasury, but not
collected; and all expenditures for every purpose, and by what authority
authorized; and also: (1) A statement of all costs of ownership and operation,
and of all income, of each and every public service industry owned and operated
by a municipality; (2) a statement of the entire public debt of every taxing
district, to which power has been delegated by the state to create a public
debt, showing the purpose for which each item of the debt was created, and the
provisions made for the payment thereof; (3) a classified statement of all
receipts and expenditures by any public institution; and (4) a statement of
all expenditures for labor relations consultants, with the identification of
each consultant, compensation, and the terms and conditions of each agreement
or arrangement; together with such other information as may be required by
the state auditor.
The reports shall be certified as to their
correctness by the state auditor, the state auditor's deputies, or other person
legally authorized to make such certificate.
Their substance shall be published in an annual
volume of comparative statistics at the expense of the state as a public
document.
