SENATE BILL REPORT

                   SB 5018

               As Passed Senate, March 10, 1997

Title:  An act relating to making technical corrections to the Revised Code of Washington.

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

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

Brief History:

Committee Activity:  Law & Justice:  1/20/97 [DP].

Passed Senate, 3/10/97, 48-0.

SENATE COMMITTEE ON LAW & JUSTICE

Majority Report:  Do pass.

  Signed by Senators Roach, Chair; Johnson, Vice Chair; Fairley, Goings, Haugen, Jacobsen, Long, McCaslin, Stevens and Zarelli.

Staff:  Mal Murphy (786-7412)

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 of Bill:  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 including 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 to give effect to the elimination.

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Effect is given to the repeal of a section affecting sewer district bidding procedures which was both amended and repealed by the 1996 Legislature. 

  Appropriation:  None.

Fiscal Note:  Not requested.

Effective Date:  Ninety days after adjournment of session in which bill is passed.

Testimony For:  None.

Testimony Against:  None.

Testified:  No one.

House Amendment(s):  Additional technical corrections requested by the Department of Health are made.