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                         SENATE BILL 5587

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By Senator Quigley

Read first time 01/27/95.  Referred to Committee on Education.

Exempting school districts from architectural and engineering procurement requirements if certain conditions are met.

    AN ACT Relating to architectural plans for school construction; and adding a new section to chapter 39.80 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 39.80 RCW to read as follows:

    (1) A school district is exempt from the requirements of this chapter if:

    (a) The district selects a design plan on file with the superintendent of public instruction;

    (b) The district contacts the design professional who designed the selected design plan and provided the basic architectural and engineering services for the selected design plan; and

    (c) The design professional who designed the selected design plan and provided the basic architectural and engineering services agrees to verify and adapt the plan and to provide all other basic architectural and engineering services for the requesting school district for at least fifteen percent less than the cost of the original basic architectural and engineering services contract:  PROVIDED, That the costs of the original basic architectural and engineering services did not exceed the maximum amount recognized for providing state matching funds by the state board of education.

    (2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(c) of this section, the costs of the original basic architectural and engineering contract may be increased by the implicit price deflator shown in the quarterly economic and revenue forecast prepared by the economic and revenue forecast council under RCW 82.33.010 for the applicable period between the execution of the original basic architectural and engineering services contract and the execution of a basic architectural and engineering services contract with the requesting school district.

    (3) For purposes of this section:

    (a) "Design plan" means the schematics and design development plans for a school.

    (b) "Design professional" means an architect, under chapter 18.08 RCW; a professional engineer, under chapter 18.43 RCW; a land surveyor, under chapter 18.43 RCW; or a landscape architect, under chapter 18.96 RCW, who is licensed or authorized by law to practice such profession, or any corporation organized under chapter 18.100 RCW or authorized under RCW 18.08.420 or 18.43.130 to render design services through the practice of one or more of such professionals.

    (c) "Basic architectural and engineering services" means basic architectural and engineering services as defined by the current edition of the American Institute of Architects Handbook of Professional Practice.

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