5345-S AMS MCDD RM 021

SSB 5345 - S AMD 196

    By Senators McDonald and Rossi

               NOT ADOPTED 03/30/01 (SCOPE & OBJECT WAS WITHDRAWN)

    On page 198, after line 16, insert the following:

    "NEW SECTION. Sec. 920.  A new section is added to chapter 41.06 RCW to read as follows:

    Any department, agency, or institution of higher education may purchase services, including services that have been customarily and historically provided by employees in the classified service under this chapter, by contracting with individuals, nonprofit organizations, businesses, employee business units, or other entities.

    No department, agency, or institution may enter into, renew, extend, or allow the automatic extension of any collective bargaining agreement that restricts or modifies the authority granted by this section.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 921.  A new section is added to chapter 43.88 RCW to read as follows:

    The office of financial management shall establish a process for identifying the savings achieved by state agencies and institutions of higher education as a result of contracting for services under the authority granted in section 920 of this act.  Expenditures during the 1999-2001 fiscal biennium shall constitute the baseline for purposes of calculating the savings.

    It is the intent of the legislature that, from the up to seven hundred million dollars in identified savings, fifty percent be directed to providing increased state funding for common school education programs and common school construction and fifty percent be directed to providing increased state funding for transportation projects and programs.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 922.  The following acts or parts of acts are each repealed:

a. RCW 41.06.380 (Purchasing services by contract not prohibited--Limitations) and 1979 ex.s. c 46 s 2; and

b. RCW 41.06.382 (Purchasing services by contract not prohibited--Limitations) and 1979 ex.s. c 46 s 1."

    Renumber the sections consecutively and correct any internal references accordingly.

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EFFECT: Authorizes state agencies to contract for services from private vendors, and directs the resulting savings into transportation and education programs.