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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1004

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State of Washington              54th Legislature             1995 Regular Session

By House Committee on Higher Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Carlson, Sherstad, Benton, Dyer, Thompson, Goldsmith, Radcliff, Pennington, Mitchell, Basich, Blanton, Mulliken, Boldt, Fuhrman, Huff, Talcott and McMahan)

Read first time 02/14/95.

Allowing institutions of higher education to contract for services.

     AN ACT Relating to higher education services contracts; amending RCW 41.06.382; and adding a new section to chapter 41.06 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 41.06 RCW to read as follows:

     (1) An institution of higher education and the joint center for higher education may purchase services customarily and historically provided by employees in classified service under this chapter by contracting with individuals or business entities, without the necessity of showing that classified employees could not provide these services, if the purchase would not result in increased expenditures of public funds for the contracted service.  A contract to purchase services shall provide that the contractor will pay to its employees performing the contract work, wages that are similar to those generally paid for such work in the county in which the contracted service is to be performed and will make available health benefits that are similar to, but in any case no less than, the benefits provided for basic health care services under chapter 70.47 RCW.

     (2) No provision contrary to or in conflict with this section in any existing collective bargaining agreement adopted under this chapter may be renewed or extended beyond the expiration date next following the effective date of this section.

     (3) This section shall not be construed to modify, reduce, or otherwise affect the purchase of services that were authorized to be purchased by contract under this chapter before the effective date of this section.

     Sec. 2.  RCW 41.06.382 and 1979 ex.s. c 46 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

     Nothing contained in this chapter shall prohibit any ((institution of higher education, as defined in RCW 28B.10.016, or)) related board from purchasing services by contract with individuals or business entities if such services were regularly purchased by valid contract at such institution prior to April 23, 1979:  PROVIDED, That no such contract adopted under this chapter may be executed or renewed if it would have the effect of terminating classified employees or classified employee positions existing at the time of the execution or renewal of the contract.

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