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SENATE BILL 5248

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State of Washington      57th Legislature     2001 Regular Session

By Senators Kline, Fairley and B. Sheldon

Read first time 01/17/2001.  Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce & Financial Institutions.

_1      AN ACT Relating to expanding membership of the electrical board

_2  by appointment of one outside line worker; amending RCW 19.28.311;

_3  and creating a new section.

_4  BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

_5      Sec. 1.  RCW 19.28.311 and 2000 c 238 s 3 are each amended to read

_6  as follows:

_7      There is hereby created an electrical board, consisting of

_8  ((fourteen)) fifteen members to be appointed by the governor with

_9  the advice of the director of labor and industries as herein

10  provided.  It shall be the purpose and function of the board to

11  advise the director on all matters pertaining to the enforcement

12  of this chapter including, but not limited to standards of

13  electrical and telecommunications installation, minimum inspection

14  procedures, and the adoption of rules pertaining to the electrical

15  inspection division:  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That no rules shall be

16  amended or repealed until the electrical board has first had an

17  opportunity to consider any proposed amendments or repeals and had

18  an opportunity to make recommendations to the director relative

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_1  thereto.  The members of the electrical board shall be selected and

_2  appointed as follows:  One member shall be an employee or officer

_3  of a corporation or public agency generating or distributing

_4  electric power; one member must be an employee or officer of a

_5  facilities-based telecommunications service provider regulated by

_6  the Washington state utilities and transportation commission;

_7  three members shall be licensed electrical contractors:  PROVIDED,

_8  That one of these members may be a representative of a trade

_9  association in the electrical industry; one member shall be a

10  licensed telecommunications contractor; one member shall be an

11  employee, or officer, or representative of a corporation or firm

12  engaged in the business of manufacturing or distributing

13  electrical and telecommunications materials, equipment, or

14  devices; one member shall be a person with knowledge of the

15  electrical industry, not related to the electrical industry, to

16  represent the public; three members shall be certified

17  electricians; one member shall be a telecommunications worker; one

18  member shall be a licensed professional electrical engineer

19  qualified to do business in the state of Washington and designated

20  as a registered communications distribution designer; one member

21  shall be an outside line worker; and one nonvoting member must be

22  a building official from an incorporated city or town with an

23  electrical inspection program established under RCW 19.28.141.  The

24  regular term of each member shall be four years:  PROVIDED,

25  HOWEVER, The original board shall be appointed on June 9, 1988,

26  for the following terms:  The first term of the member

27  representing a corporation or public agency generating or

28  distributing electric power shall serve four years; two members

29  representing licensed electrical contractors shall serve three

30  years; the member representing a manufacturer or distributor of

31  electrical equipment or devices shall serve three years; the

32  member representing the public and one member representing

33  licensed electrical contractors shall serve two years; the three

34  members selected as certified electricians shall serve for terms

35  of one, two, and three years, respectively; the member selected as

36  the licensed professional electrical engineer shall serve for one

37  year.  The first term for the member representing outside line

38  workers is for four years.  In appointing the original board, the

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_1  governor shall give due consideration to the value of continuity

_2  in membership from predecessor boards.  Thereafter, the governor

_3  shall appoint or reappoint board members for terms of four years

_4  and to fill vacancies created by the completion of the terms of

_5  the original members.  When new positions are created, the governor

_6  may appoint the initial members to the new positions to staggered

_7  terms of one to three years.  The governor shall also fill vacancies

_8  caused by death, resignation, or otherwise for the unexpired term

_9  of such members by appointing their successors from the same

10  business classification.  The same procedure shall be followed in

11  making such subsequent appointments as is provided for the

12  original appointments.  The board, at this first meeting shall elect

13  one of its members to serve as chairman.  Any person acting as the

14  chief electrical inspector shall serve as secretary of the board

15  during his or her tenure as chief state inspector.  Meetings of the

16  board shall be held at least quarterly in accordance with a

17  schedule established by the board.  Each member of the board shall

18  receive compensation in accordance with RCW 43.03.240 and shall be

19  reimbursed for travel expenses in accordance with RCW 43.03.050

20  and 43.03.060 which shall be paid out of the electrical license

21  fund, upon vouchers approved by the director of labor and

22  industries.

23      NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  The governor shall appoint the member

24  representing outside line workers within ninety days after the

25  effective date of this act.

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