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 copies to the state library; ((three))
ten copies to the ((University of Washington)) state 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.
