FINAL BILL REPORT

                   SB 5018

                          C 245 L 97

                      Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Making technical corrections to the Revised Code of Washington.

Sponsors:  Senator Roach; by request of Statute Law Committee.

Senate Committee on Law & Justice

House Committee on Law & Justice

Background:  Each year the Statute Law Committee proposes various technical corrections to clear up confusion or correct mistakes in the Revised Code of Washington. These usually include such problems as double amendments to the same section in the same legislative session, amending and repealing the same section in the same session, and inadvertent omission of words on floor amendments.

Summary:  Double amendments affecting the classification and liability of emergency medical personnel, payments by fire protection districts annexed by cities or towns, water district bidding procedures, and the definition of related persons who are not included in the definition of agency are given effect by reenacting the sections affected by both amendments.

The words AMarch of@, inadvertently omitted from a 1995 floor amendment, are added to the section requiring boards of county commissioners to annually file with the auditor an inventory of capitalized assets.

The requirement that health insurance entities must be certified as health insurance entities was both amended and eliminated by the 1995 Legislature.  The section eliminating the requirement is reenacted.  Additional corrections requested by the Department of Health are made.

The requirement that the uniform benefits package must be implemented as the schedule of covered basic health care services was both amended and eliminated by the 1995 Legislature. The section eliminating the requirement is reenacted.  The words Acovered basic health care services@, inadvertently omitted from an amendment, are added.

Effect is given to the repeal of a section affecting sewer district bidding procedures which was both amended and repealed by the 1996 Legislature. 

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate 48 0

House     95 0 (House amended)

Senate    46 0 (Senate concurred)

Effective:  July 27, 1997