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AN ACT Relating to the state printer; amending RCW 43.78.030, 43.78.040, 43.78.050, 43.78.070, 43.78.080, 43.78.090, and 43.78.110; and repealing RCW 43.78.100 and 43.78.105.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1. RCW 43.78.030 and 1994 c 82 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

The public printer shall print and bind the session laws, the journals of the two houses of the legislature, all bills, resolutions, documents, and other printing and binding of either the senate or house, as the same may be ordered by the legislature((; and such forms, blanks, record books, and printing and binding of every description as may be ordered by all state officers, boards, commissions, and institutions, and the supreme court, and the court of appeals and officers thereof, as the same may be ordered on requisition, from time to time, by the proper authorities. This section shall not apply to the printing of the supreme court and the court of appeals reports, to the printing of bond certificates or bond offering disclosure documents, to the printing of educational publications of the state historical societies, or to any printing done or contracted for by institutions of higher education: PROVIDED, That)). Institutions of higher education and other state agencies, in consultation with the public printer, ((~~develop~~)) may contract with the state printer or any private company for printing and binding work after vendor selection procedures comparable to those used by the public printer for contracted printing jobs. ((Where any institution or institution of higher learning of the state is or may become equipped with facilities for doing such work, it may do any printing: (1) For itself, or (2) for any other state institution when such printing is done as part of a course of study relative to the profession of printer. Any printing and binding of whatever description as may be needed by any institution or agency of the state department of social and health services not at Olympia, or the supreme court or the court of appeals or any officer thereof, the estimated cost of which shall not exceed one thousand dollars, may be done by any private printing company in the general vicinity within the state of Washington so ordering, if in the judgment of the officer of the agency so ordering, the saving in time and processing justifies the award to such local private printing concern.

Beginning on July 1, 1989, and on July 1 of each succeeding odd-numbered year, the dollar limit specified in this section shall be adjusted as follows: The office of financial management shall calculate such limit by adjusting the previous biennium's limit by an appropriate federal inflationary index reflecting the rate of inflation for the previous biennium. Such amounts shall be rounded to the nearest fifty dollars.))

Sec. 2. RCW 43.78.040 and 1965 c 8 s 43.78.040 are each amended to read as follows:

All printing and binding done by the state printer shall be done under the general superintendence of the authorities ordering it, and when completed shall be delivered to such authorities, who shall sign receipts therefor.

((~~Before~~)) All printing and binding ordered from the public printer ((~~shall execute any printing or binding for any office, board, commission, or institution, the proper officer thereof shall apply therefor~~)) must be by requisition.

Sec. 3. RCW 43.78.050 and 1965 c 8 s 43.78.050 are each amended to read as follows:

((~~Upon delivering a printing or binding job and receiving a receipt therefor~~)) The public printer shall make out((,)) and deliver an itemized statement of charges to the requesting agency ((~~an itemized statement of charges~~)).

Sec. 4. RCW 43.78.070 and 1979 c 151 s 134 are each amended to read as follows:

The public printer shall use the state printing plant ((~~upon the following conditions, to wit:~~

~~(1) He shall~~)) to do the public printing((,)) that is ordered and charge ((~~therefor the~~)) fees ((~~as provided by law. He~~)) for this work. The public printer may print the Washington Reports for the publishers thereof under a contract approved in writing by the governor.

((~~(2)~~)) The gross income of the public printer shall be deposited in an account designated "state printing plant revolving fund" in depositaries approved by the state treasurer, and shall be disbursed by the public printer by check and only as follows:

First, in payment of the actual cost of labor, material, supplies, replacements, repairs, water, light, heat, telephone, rent, and all other expenses necessary in the operation of the plant: PROVIDED, That no machinery shall be purchased except on written approval of the governor;

Second, in payment of the cost of reasonable insurance upon the printing plant, payable to the state and of all fidelity bonds required by law of the public printer;

Third, in payment to the public printer of a salary which shall be fixed by the governor in accordance with the provisions of RCW 43.03.040;

Fourth, in remitting the balance to the state treasurer for the general fund: PROVIDED, That a reasonable sum to be determined by the governor, the public printer, and the director of financial management shall be retained in the fund for working capital for the public printer.

Sec. 5. RCW 43.78.080 and 1972 ex.s. c 1 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

All printing, ruling, binding, and other work done ((~~or supplies furnished by the state printing plant for the various state departments, commissions, institutions, boards, and officers shall~~)) must be paid for on an actual cost basis as determined from a standard cost finding system to be maintained by the state printing plant. In no event shall the price charged ((~~the various state departments, commissions, institutions, boards, and officers~~)) exceed those established by the Porte Publishing Company's Franklin Printing Catalogue for similar and comparable work. All bills for printing, ruling, binding, and other work done ((~~or for supplies furnished~~)) by the state printing plant shall be certified and sworn to by the public printer.

The public printing shall be divided into the following classes:

FIRST CLASS. The bills, resolutions, and other matters that may be ordered by the legislature, or either branch thereof, in bill form, shall constitute the first class, and shall be printed in such form as the legislature shall provide.

SECOND CLASS. The second class shall consist of printing and binding of journals of the senate and house of representatives, ((and the annual and biennial reports of the several state officers, state commissions, boards, and institutions, with the exception of the reports of the attorney general and the governor's message to the legislature, which shall be printed and bound in the same style as heretofore. Said journals and reports shall)) which must be printed in such form as the senate and house of representatives ((~~and the various state officers, commissions, boards, and institutions shall respectively~~)) provide.

THIRD CLASS. The third class shall consist of all reports, communications, and all other documents that may be ordered printed in book form by the legislature ((or either branch thereof, and all reports, books, pamphlets, and other like matter printed in book form required by all state officers, boards, commissions, and institutions shall be printed in such form and style, and set in such size type, and printed on such grade of paper as may be desired by the state officer, board, commission, or institution ordering them, and which they think will best serve the purpose for which intended)).

FOURTH CLASS. The fourth class shall consist of the session laws, and shall be printed and bound in such form as the statute law committee shall provide.

FIFTH CLASS. The fifth class ((~~shall~~)) consists of ((the printing of all stationery blanks, record books, and circulars, and all printing and binding required by the respective state officers, boards, commissions, and institutions not covered by classes one, two, three, and four)) any work that may be ordered by any other state agency.

Sec. 6. RCW 43.78.090 and 1965 c 8 s 43.78.090 are each amended to read as follows:

Whenever required by law or by the legislature ((~~or by any state officer, board, commission, or institution~~)), the public printer shall keep the type used in printing any matter forming a part of the first, second, third, and fourth classes standing for a period not exceeding sixty days for use in reprinting such matter.

Sec. 7. RCW 43.78.110 and 1993 c 379 s 107 are each amended to read as follows:

Whenever in the judgment of the public printer certain printing, ruling, binding, or supplies that are ordered by the legislature or may be ordered by another state agency can be secured from private sources more economically than by doing the work or preparing the supplies in the state printing plant, the public printer may obtain such work or supplies from such private sources.

In event any work or supplies are secured on behalf of the state under this section the state printing plant shall be entitled to add up to five percent to the cost thereof to cover the handling of the orders which shall be added to the bills and charged to the respective authorities ordering the work or supplies. The five percent handling charge shall not apply to contracts ((~~with institutions of higher education~~)) that a state agency makes on its own with a private printing company.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 8. The following acts or parts of acts are each repealed:

(1) RCW 43.78.100 (Stock to be furnished) and 1993 c 379 s 106 & 1965 c 8 s 43.78.100; and

(2) RCW 43.78.105 (Printing for institutions of higher education--Interlocal agreements) and 1993 c 379 s 105.