SENATE BILL REPORT

                   SB 6219

              As Passed Senate, February 10, 1998

Title:  An act relating to reports to the legislature.

Brief Description:  Making technical corrections to the Revised Code of Washington concerning reports to the legislature that are no longer necessary.

Sponsors:  Senators McDonald, McCaslin, Patterson, West and Hale; by request of Office of Financial Management.

Brief History:

Committee Activity:  Government Operations:  1/23/98, 1/27/98 [DP].

Passed Senate, 2/10/98, 44-3.

SENATE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Majority Report:  Do pass.

  Signed by Senators McCaslin, Chair; Hale, Vice Chair; Haugen, Patterson and T. Sheldon.

Staff:  Eugene Green (786-7405)

Background:  There are numerous instances of state law where a report to the Legislature is required by a date certain and numerous instances where formerly a report to the Legislature was required, but is no longer necessary.

Summary of Bill:  Numerous laws either requiring a report to the Legislature by a date certain or requiring unnecessary reports to the Legislature are eliminated.

Appropriation:  None.

Fiscal Note:  Not requested.

Effective Date:  Ninety days after adjournment of session in which bill is passed, except Section 14 which takes effect September 1, 2001; and Sections 115 and 116 which take effect June 1, 2001.

Testimony For:  This is essentially a technical cleanup bill that eliminates approximately 230 reports to the Legislature.  Many of these reports have been completed years ago.  Others are no longer needed.

Testimony Against:  None.

Testified:  Dick Thompson, Gary Robinson, OFM (pro).

House Amendment(s):  The Small Business Improvement Council=s authority to make occasional proposals and recommendations to the Governor is retained.

The section transferring the duty to submit an annual report identifying the causes of disproportionality in the state=s juvenile justice system from DSHS to the Sentencing Guidelines Commission is deleted.