AN ACT
Relating to clarifying and streamlining use of funds within the department of
general administration; and amending RCW 4.92.220, 39.32.010, 39.32.020,
39.32.035, and 39.32.040.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE
OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
4.92.220 and 1991 sp.s. c 13 s 91 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) A
risk management account is hereby created in the treasury to be ((an
appropriated account)) used exclusively for the payment of costs related
to:
(a)
The appropriated administration of liability, property, and
vehicle claims, including investigation, claim processing, negotiation,
and settlement, and other expenses relating to settlements and judgments
against the state not otherwise budgeted; and
(b) The
nonappropriated pass-through cost associated with the purchase of liability
and property insurance, including catastrophic insurance, subject to policy
conditions and limitations determined by the risk manager.
(2)
The risk management ((account)) account's appropriation shall be
financed through a combination of direct appropriations and assessments to
state agencies.
Sec.
2. RCW
39.32.010 and 1977 ex.s. c 135 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
For
the purposes of RCW 39.32.010 through 39.32.060:
The
term "eligible donee" means any public agency carrying out or
promoting for the residents of a given political area one or more public
purposes, such as conservation, economic development, education, parks and
recreation, public health, and public safety; or nonprofit educational or
public health institutions or organizations, such as medical institutions,
hospitals, clinics, health centers, schools, colleges, universities, schools
for the mentally retarded, schools for the physically handicapped, child care
centers, radio and television stations licensed by the federal communications
commission as educational radio or educational television stations, museums
attended by the public, and public libraries serving all residents of a
community, district, state, or region, and which are exempt from taxation under
Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, for purposes of education or
public health, including research for any such purpose.
The
term "public agency" means the state or any subdivision thereof,
including any unit of local government, economic development district,
emergency services organization, or any instrumentality created by compact or
other agreement between the state and a political subdivision, or any Indian
tribe, band, group, or community located on a state reservation.
The
term "surplus property" means any property, title to which is in the
federal, state, or local government or any department or agency thereof,
and which property is to be disposed of as surplus under any act of congress or
the legislature or local statute, heretofore or hereafter enacted providing
for such disposition.
Sec.
3. RCW
39.32.020 and 1977 ex.s. c 135 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
The
director of general administration is hereby authorized to purchase, lease or
otherwise acquire from ((the)) federal, state, or local
government ((of the United States)) or any surplus property disposal
agency thereof surplus property to be used in accordance with the provisions of
this chapter.
Sec.
4. RCW
39.32.035 and 1977 ex.s. c 135 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
The
surplus property purchase revolving fund shall be administered by the director
of general administration and be used for the purchase, lease or other
acquisition from time to time of surplus property from any federal, state,
or local government surplus property disposal agency. The director may
purchase, lease or acquire such surplus property on the requisition of an
eligible donee and without such requisition at such time or times as he deems
it advantageous to do so; and in either case he shall be responsible for the
care and custody of the property purchased so long as it remains in his possession.
Sec.
5. RCW
39.32.040 and 1977 ex.s. c 135 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
In
purchasing federal surplus property on requisition for any eligible
donee the director may advance the purchase price thereof from the surplus
property purchase revolving fund, and he shall then in due course bill the
proper eligible donee for the amount paid by him for the property plus a
reasonable amount to cover the expense incurred by him in connection with the
transaction. In purchasing surplus property without requisition, the director
shall be deemed to take title outright and he shall then be authorized to
resell from time to time any or all of such property to such eligible donees as
desire to avail themselves of the privilege of purchasing. All moneys received
in payment for surplus property from eligible donees shall be deposited by the
director in the surplus property purchase revolving fund. The director shall
sell federal surplus property to eligible donees at a price sufficient
only to reimburse the surplus property purchase revolving fund for the cost of
the property to the fund, plus a reasonable amount to cover expenses incurred
in connection with the transaction. Where surplus property is transferred to
an eligible donee without cost to the transferee, the director may impose a
reasonable charge to cover expenses incurred in connection with the
transaction. The governor, through the director of general administration,
shall administer the surplus property program in the state and shall perform or
supervise all those functions with respect to the program, its agencies and
instrumentalities.
