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                         SENATE BILL 5067

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By Senators Snyder and Sellar

Read first time 01/09/95.  Referred to Committee on Government Operations.

Simplifying distribution and pricing of state legal publications.

    AN ACT Relating to distribution and pricing of session laws, legislative journals, and supreme court and court of appeals reports; and amending RCW 40.04.030, 40.04.035, 40.04.040, and 40.04.090.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 40.04.030 and 1971 c 42 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

    The ((state law librarian shall receive from the)) public printer((, whose duty it)) shall ((be to)) deliver to ((him,)) the statute law committee all bound volumes of the session laws((, and)).  The public printer shall deliver the house and senate journals as ((the same)) they are published to the chief clerk of the house of representatives and the secretary of the senate, as appropriate.  ((He shall also receive from)) The publisher of the supreme court reports and the court of appeals reports of the state of Washington ((such)) shall deliver the copies ((as)) that are purchased by the supreme court for the use of the state to the state law librarian.

    Sec. 2.  RCW 40.04.035 and 1982 1st ex.s. c 32 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:

    The statute law committee, after each legislative session, shall furnish one temporary bound copy of each act as published under chapter 44.20 RCW to each requesting member of the legislature at which such law was enacted, and to each requesting state department or division thereof, commission, committee, board, and council, and to community colleges.  ((Thirty-five)) Copies shall be furnished to the senate and ((fifty copies to)) the house of representatives ((or such other number)) as may be requested.  Two copies shall be furnished the administrator for the courts.  One copy shall be furnished for each assistant attorney general; and one copy each to the Olympia representatives of the Associated Press and the United Press.

    Each county auditor shall submit each year to the statute law committee a list of county officials requiring temporary session laws for official use only, and the auditor shall receive and distribute such copies to the county officials.

    There shall be a charge ((of five dollars)) established by the statute law committee for each of the complete sets of such temporary publications when delivered to any person, firm, corporation, or institution excepting the persons and institutions named in this section.  All moneys received from the sale of such temporary sets shall be transmitted to the state treasurer, who shall deposit ((the same)) them in the state treasury to the credit of the general fund.

    Sec. 3.  RCW 40.04.040 and 1982 1st ex.s. c 32 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    Permanent session laws shall be distributed, sold, ((and/or)) and exchanged by the ((state law librarian)) statute law committee as follows:

    (1) Copies shall be given as follows:  One to each requesting United States senator and representative in congress from this state; two to the Library of Congress; one to the United States supreme court library; three to the library of the circuit court of appeals of the ninth circuit; two to each United States district court room within this state; two to each office and branch office of the United States district attorneys in this state; one to each requesting state official whose office is created by the Constitution; ((two)) one each to the ((president of the senate,)) secretary of the senate((, speaker of the house of representatives,)) and the chief clerk of the house of representatives and such additional copies as they may request; fourteen copies to the code reviser; two copies to the state library; ((two copies to the law library of the University of Puget Sound law school; two copies to the law library of Gonzaga University law school;)) two copies each to the law libraries of any accredited law schools ((as are hereafter)) established in this state; one copy to each state adult correctional institution; and one copy to each state mental institution.

    (2) Copies, for official use only, shall be distributed as follows:  Two copies to the governor; one each to the state historical society and the state bar association; and one copy to each prosecuting attorney.

    Sufficient copies shall be furnished for the use of the supreme court, the court of appeals, the superior courts, and the state law library as from time to time are ((needed)) requested.  ((Eight copies shall be distributed to the University of Washington law library; one copy each to the offices of the president and the board of regents of the University of Washington, the dean of the University of Washington school of law, and)) One copy to the University of Washington library; one copy to the library of each of the regional universities and to The Evergreen State College; and one copy ((to the president of the Washington State University and four copies)) to the Washington State University library.  Six copies shall be sent to the King county law library, and one copy to each of the county law libraries organized pursuant to law; one copy to each public library in cities of the first class, and one copy to the municipal reference branch of the Seattle public library.

    (3) Surplus copies of the session laws shall be sold and delivered by the ((state law librarian)) statute law committee, in which case the price of the bound volumes shall be ((twenty dollars each)) sufficient to cover costs.  All moneys received from the sale of such bound volumes of session laws shall be paid into the state treasury for the general fund.

    (4) The ((state law librarian is authorized to)) statute law committee may exchange bound copies of the session laws for similar laws or legal materials of other states, territories, and governments, and ((to)) make such other and further distribution of the bound volumes as in ((his)) its judgment seems proper.

    Sec. 4.  RCW 40.04.090 and 1993 c 169 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    The house and senate journals shall be distributed ((and/or)) and sold by the ((state law librarian)) chief clerk of the house of representatives and the secretary of the senate as follows:

    (1) Subject to subsection (5) of this section, sets shall be distributed as follows:  ((One set to each secretary and assistant secretary of the senate, chief clerk and assistant to the chief clerk of the house of representatives, and to each minute clerk and sergeant-at-arms of the two branches of the legislature of which they occupy the offices and positions mentioned.))  One to each requesting official whose office is created by the Constitution, and one to each requesting state department director; ((two)) twelve copies to the state library; ((three copies to the University of Washington law library;)) two copies to the University of Washington library; one to the King county law library; one to the Washington State University library; one to the library of each of the regional universities and to The Evergreen State College; ((one to the law library of Gonzaga University law school; one to the law library of the University of Puget Sound law school;)) one each to the law ((libraries)) library of any accredited law school ((as hereafter established)) in this state; and one to each free public library in the state ((which)) that requests it.

    (2) House and senate journals of the preceding regular session during an odd- or even-numbered year, and of any intervening special session, shall be provided for use of legislators and legislative staff in such numbers as directed by the chief clerk of the house of representatives and secretary of the senate.

    (3) ((Sufficient sets shall be retained for the use of the state law library.))  Surplus sets of the house and senate journals shall be sold and delivered by the ((state law librarian)) chief clerk of the house of representatives and the secretary of the senate at a price set by ((the chief clerk of the house of representatives and the secretary of the senate)) them after consulting with the state printer to determine reasonable costs associated with the production of the journals, and the proceeds therefrom shall be paid to the state treasurer for the general fund.

    (4) The ((state law librarian is authorized to)) chief clerk of the house of representatives and the secretary of the senate may exchange copies of the house and senate journals for similar journals of other states, territories, ((and/or)) and governments, or for other legal materials, and ((to)) make such other and further distribution of them as in ((his or her)) their judgment seems proper.

    (5) Periodically the ((state law librarian)) chief clerk of the house of representatives and the secretary of the senate may canvas those entitled to receive copies under this section, and may reduce or eliminate the number of copies distributed to anyone who so concurs.

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