CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 5398

                    Chapter 80, Laws of 1995

                        54th Legislature

                      1995 Regular Session

    Expert witnesses‑-Filing of personal services contracts

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/23/95

Passed by the Senate March 3, 1995   YEAS 45   NAYS 1 JOEL PRITCHARD President of the Senate Passed by the House April 6, 1995   YEAS 95   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5398 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the       House of Representatives

MARTY BROWN                             Secretary

Approved April 18, 1995 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                       April 18, 1995 - 1:09 p.m.

MIKE LOWRY Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                         SENATE BILL 5398

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             Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session

State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By Senators Franklin, Pelz and Wojahn; by request of Department of Labor & Industries

Read first time 01/23/95.  Referred to Committee on Government Operations.

Removing the filing requirement for expert witness personal service contracts.

    AN ACT Relating to reporting of personal service contracts; and amending RCW 39.29.040.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 39.29.040 and 1987 c 414 s 7 are each amended to read as follows:

    This chapter does not apply to:

    (1) Contracts specifying a fee of less than two thousand five hundred dollars if the total of the contracts from that agency with the contractor within a fiscal year does not exceed two thousand five hundred dollars;

    (2) Contracts awarded to companies that furnish a service where the tariff is established by the utilities and transportation commission or other public entity;

    (3) Intergovernmental agreements awarded to any governmental entity, whether federal, state, or local and any department, division, or subdivision thereof;

    (4) Contracts awarded for services to be performed for a standard fee, when the standard fee is established by the contracting agency or any other governmental entity and a like contract is available to all qualified applicants;

    (5) Contracts for services that are necessary to the conduct of collaborative research if prior approval is granted by the funding source;

    (6) Contracts for client services;

    (7) Contracts for architectural and engineering services as defined in RCW 39.80.020, which shall be entered into under chapter 39.80 RCW; and

    (8) Contracts for the employment of expert witnesses for the purposes of litigation((, except that such contracts shall be filed within the same time period as emergency contracts)).

    Passed the Senate March 3, 1995.

    Passed the House April 6, 1995.

Approved by the Governor April 18, 1995.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 18, 1995.

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