SENATE BILL REPORT

                   SB 5426

               As Passed Senate, March 12, 1997

Title:  An act relating to making technical changes by deleting references to the former judicial council.

Brief Description:  Deleting references to the former judicial council.

Sponsors:  Senator McCaslin.

Brief History:

Committee Activity:  Law & Justice:  2/17/97 [DP].

Passed Senate, 3/12/97, 49-0.

SENATE COMMITTEE ON LAW & JUSTICE

Majority Report:  Do pass.

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

Staff:  Martin Lovinger (786-7443)

Background:  In 1994, the Legislature established a process to eliminate redundant and obsolete boards and commissions.

In 1995, the Legislature eliminated the Judicial Council.

Summary of Bill:  References to the Judicial Council in the RCW are deleted. 

A requirement that the annual reports of the Administrator for the Courts include activities related to courthouse security is added to one section.  A reference to the Administrator for the Courts is corrected to indicate that the Office of Public Defense addresses determinations of indigency.

Appropriation:  None.

Fiscal Note:  Not requested.

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

Testimony For:  This bill deletes unnecessary references to a function which no longer exists.

Testimony Against:  None.

Testified:  Mary McQueen, Office of the Administrator for the Courts (pro).