HOUSE BILL REPORT

                 ESB 6651

                      As Passed House:

                      February 28, 1996

Title:  An act relating to storage of public records on compact discs.

Brief Description:  Allowing public record storage on compact disc.

Sponsors:  Senators Finkbeiner, Drew, Haugen, Swecker, Winsley, Johnson and Strannigan.

Brief History:

  Committee Activity:

Government Operations:  2/21/96, 2/23/96 [DP].

  Floor Activity:

     Passed House:  2/28/96, 96-0.

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Majority Report:  Do pass.  Signed by 15 members:  Representatives Reams, Chairman; Cairnes, Vice Chairman; Goldsmith, Vice Chairman; Rust, Ranking Minority Member; Scott, Assistant Ranking Minority Member; Conway; R. Fisher; Hargrove; Honeyford; Hymes; Mulliken; Scheuerman; D. Schmidt; Van Luven and Wolfe.

Staff:  Scott White (786-7153).

Background:  State law requires various types of public records to filed and stored.   Public records may be stored in a variety of formats, including paper, photographs, film, sound recordings, map drawings, machine-readable material, among others.

Summary of Bill:  The compact disc is added to the list of allowable forms by which public records are to be stored. 

Appropriation:  None.

Fiscal Note:  Not requested.

Effective Date:  Ninety days after adjournment of session in which bill is passed.

Testimony For:  The compact disc is a cheaper and more efficient way to store data compared to most other methods.  This bill simply provides for an alternative to the existing methods of data storage.

Testimony Against:  None.

Testified:  Senator Finkbeiner, prime sponsor; and Jim Sweeney and Nancy Richards, CDCOM.