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SENATE
BILL 6698
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AS
AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
Passed
Legislature - 1998 Regular Session
State of Washington 55th
Legislature 1998 Regular Session
By
Read first time 01/27/98.
Referred to Committee on Government Operations.
Revising
timelines for the salary commission.
AN
ACT Relating to the Washington state salary commission; and amending RCW
43.03.310.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
43.03.310 and 1995 c 3 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)
The citizens' commission on salaries for elected officials shall study the
relationship of salaries to the duties of members of the legislature, all
elected officials of the executive branch of state government, and all judges
of the supreme court, court of appeals, superior courts, and district courts,
and shall fix the salary for each respective position.
(2)
Except as provided otherwise in RCW 43.03.305 and this section, the commission
shall be solely responsible for its own organization, operation, and action and
shall enjoy the fullest cooperation of all state officials, departments, and
agencies.
(3)
Members of the commission shall receive no compensation for their services, but
shall be eligible to receive a subsistence allowance and travel expenses
pursuant to RCW 43.03.050 and 43.03.060.
(4)
The members of the commission shall elect a chair from among their number. The
commission shall set a schedule of salaries by an affirmative vote of not less
than nine members of the commission.
(5)
The commission shall file its initial schedule of salaries for the elected
officials with the secretary of state no later than the first Monday in June,
1987, and shall file a schedule biennially thereafter. Each such schedule
shall be filed in legislative bill form, shall be assigned a chapter number and
published with the session laws of the legislature, and shall be codified by
the statute law committee. The signature of the chair of the commission shall
be affixed to each schedule submitted to the secretary of state. The chair
shall certify that the schedule has been adopted in accordance with the
provisions of state law and with the rules, if any, of the commission. Such
schedules shall become effective ninety days after the filing thereof, except
as provided in Article XXVIII, section 1 of the state Constitution. State laws
regarding referendum petitions shall apply to such schedules to the extent
consistent with Article XXVIII, section 1 of the state Constitution.
(6)
((Prior to)) Before the filing of any salary schedule, the
commission shall first develop a proposed salary schedule and then hold
no fewer than four ((public hearings thereon)) regular meetings as
defined by chapter 42.30 RCW to take public testimony on the proposed schedule
within the four months immediately preceding the filing. At the last public
hearing that is held as a regular meeting on the proposed schedule, the
commission shall adopt the salary schedule as originally proposed or as amended
at that meeting that will be filed with the secretary of state.
(7)
All meetings, actions, hearings, and business of the commission shall be
subject in full to the open public meetings act, chapter 42.30 RCW.
(8) Salaries of the officials referred to in subsection (1) of this
section that are in effect on January 12, 1987, shall continue until modified
by the commission under this section.
