SENATE BILL REPORT

                   HB 1827

              As Reported By Senate Committee On:

            State & Local Government, April 1, 1999

Title:  An act relating to public printing.

Brief Description:  Concerning printing contracts entered into by state agencies.

Sponsors:  Representatives D. Schmidt, Romero and McMorris.

Brief History:

Committee Activity:  State & Local Government:  3/25/99, 4/1/99 [DP].

SENATE COMMITTEE ON STATE & LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Majority Report:  Do pass.

  Signed by Senators Patterson, Chair; Gardner, Vice Chair; Hale, Haugen, Horn, Kline and McCaslin.

Staff:  Eugene Green (786-7405)

Background:  All printing, binding, and stationery work done for a county, city, town, port district, or school district shall be done in this state.  However, this work may be done outside of the state if the:

$work cannot be executed within the state;

$lowest charge for which the work can be procured in the state exceeds the charge usually and customarily made to private individuals and corporations for similar work; or

$bids for the work are excessive and not reasonably competitive.

A similar restriction does not exist for printing done for state agencies.

Summary of Bill:  Printing, binding, and stationery work ordered by a state agency must be done in the state, subject to the same exceptions for out-of-state work that are currently applicable to such work ordered by a county, city, town, port district, or school district.

Appropriation:  None.

Fiscal Note:  Available.

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

Testimony For:  This bill puts the state under the same requirements as local units of government.  We should not lose money to out-of-state printers who pay less and have lesser working conditions than in-state printers.

Testimony Against:  None.

Testified:  PRO:  Bill Stauffacher, Poetic Printing and Imaging Association; James Thompson, West Coast Paper Company; Rowland Thompson, Allied Daily Newspaper.