BILL REQ. #:  Z-0554.1 

Read first time 02/06/2003.   Referred to Committee on Appropriations.

     AN ACT Relating to funding services within the department of general administration; amending RCW 43.19.565 and 43.19.615; reenacting and amending RCW 43.79A.040; adding a new section to chapter 43.19 RCW; creating a new section; and repealing RCW 43.19.605.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   The legislature finds that the nature and demand for centralized state government support services has evolved considerably over the forty years since the creation of the department of general administration. The legislature finds that sound business models and financing mechanisms for centralized state services are essential to ensuring competitive and fair fees and rates. The legislature further finds that as successive mandates have been added to the department's mission, the department's enabling statutes have grown increasingly complex and inflexible. However, the underlying management principles of efficiency and economies of scale, service and stewardship, innovation, and fair pricing based on full ownership costs remain as vital to the state as ever. The legislature declares that reaffirming these principles is of public benefit, to ensure that state agencies providing direct services to the public receive the most efficient, cost-effective, and responsive support services possible.

Sec. 2   RCW 43.19.565 and 1998 c 111 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
     The department of general administration shall establish a motor vehicle transportation service which is hereby empowered to:
     (1) Provide suitable motor vehicle transportation services to any state agency on either a temporary or permanent basis upon requisition from a state agency and upon such demonstration of need as the department may require;
     (2) Provide motor pools for the use of state agencies located in the Olympia ((and Seattle)) area((s)) and such additional motor pools at other locations in the state as may be necessary to provide economic, efficient, and effective motor vehicle transportation services to state agencies. Such additional motor pools may be under either the direct control of the department or under the supervision of another state agency by agreement with the department;
     (3) Establish an equitable schedule of rental and mileage charges to agencies for motor vehicle transportation services furnished which shall be designed to provide funds to cover replacement of vehicles, the purchase of additional vehicles, and to recover the actual total costs of motor pool operations including but not limited to vehicle operation expense, depreciation expense, overhead, and nonrecoverable collision or other damage to vehicles((. Additions to capital such as the purchase of additional vehicles shall be budgeted and purchased from funds appropriated for such purposes under such procedures as may be provided by law)); and
     (4) Establish guidelines, procedures, and standards for fleet operations that other state agencies and institutions of higher education may adopt. The guidelines, procedures, and standards shall be consistent with and carry out the objectives of any general policies adopted by the office of financial management under RCW 43.41.130.

Sec. 3   RCW 43.19.615 and 1998 c 105 s 13 are each amended to read as follows:
     The director of general administration shall deposit in the general administration services account all receipts, including the initial transfer of automobile pool capital from the highway equipment fund and any other funds transferred, rentals or other fees and charges for transportation services furnished, proceeds from the sale of surplus or replaced property under the control of the supervisor of motor transport and other income, and from which shall be paid operating costs, including salaries and wages, administrative expense, overhead, the cost of replacement vehicles, additional passenger vehicles ((authorized pursuant to RCW 43.19.565)), and any other expenses. ((If it is necessary at any time for the department to request any appropriation from the general fund or various dedicated, revolving, or trust funds to purchase additional vehicles, any appropriation therefor may provide that such advance shall be repaid together with reasonable interest from surpluses of the general administration services account.))

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 4   A new section is added to chapter 43.19 RCW to read as follows:
     (1) The commemorative works account is created in the custody of the state treasurer and shall be used by the department of general administration for the ongoing care, maintenance, and repair of commemorative works on the state capitol grounds. Only the director or the director's designee may authorize expenditures from the account. The account is subject to the allotment procedures under chapter 43.88 RCW, but an appropriation is not necessary for expenditures.
     (2) For purposes of this section, "state capitol grounds" means buildings and land owned by the state and otherwise designated as state capitol grounds, including the west capitol campus, the east capitol campus, the north capitol campus, the Tumwater campus, the Lacey campus, Sylvester Park, Centennial Park, the Old Capitol Building, and Capitol Lake.

Sec. 5   RCW 43.79A.040 and 2002 c 322 s 5, 2002 c 204 s 7, and 2002 c 61 s 6 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
     (1) Money in the treasurer's trust fund may be deposited, invested, and reinvested by the state treasurer in accordance with RCW 43.84.080 in the same manner and to the same extent as if the money were in the state treasury.
     (2) All income received from investment of the treasurer's trust fund shall be set aside in an account in the treasury trust fund to be known as the investment income account.
     (3) The investment income account may be utilized for the payment of purchased banking services on behalf of treasurer's trust funds including, but not limited to, depository, safekeeping, and disbursement functions for the state treasurer or affected state agencies. The investment income account is subject in all respects to chapter 43.88 RCW, but no appropriation is required for payments to financial institutions. Payments shall occur prior to distribution of earnings set forth in subsection (4) of this section.
     (4)(a) Monthly, the state treasurer shall distribute the earnings credited to the investment income account to the state general fund except under (b) and (c) of this subsection.
     (b) The following accounts and funds shall receive their proportionate share of earnings based upon each account's or fund's average daily balance for the period: The Washington promise scholarship account, the college savings program account, the Washington advanced college tuition payment program account, the agricultural local fund, the American Indian scholarship endowment fund, the basic health plan self-insurance reserve account, the Washington state combined fund drive account, the Washington international exchange scholarship endowment fund, the developmental disabilities endowment trust fund, the energy account, the fair fund, the fruit and vegetable inspection account, the game farm alternative account, the grain inspection revolving fund, the juvenile accountability incentive account, the rural rehabilitation account, the stadium and exhibition center account, the youth athletic facility account, the self-insurance revolving fund, the sulfur dioxide abatement account, ((and)) the children's trust fund, and the commemorative works account. However, the earnings to be distributed shall first be reduced by the allocation to the state treasurer's service fund pursuant to RCW 43.08.190.
     (c) The following accounts and funds shall receive eighty percent of their proportionate share of earnings based upon each account's or fund's average daily balance for the period: The advanced right of way revolving fund, the advanced environmental mitigation revolving account, the city and county advance right-of-way revolving fund, the federal narcotics asset forfeitures account, the high occupancy vehicle account, the local rail service assistance account, and the miscellaneous transportation programs account.
     (5) In conformance with Article II, section 37 of the state Constitution, no trust accounts or funds shall be allocated earnings without the specific affirmative directive of this section.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 6   RCW 43.19.605 (Motor vehicle transportation service -- Reimbursement for property transferred -- Credits -- Accounting--Disputes) and 1998 c 105 s 11, 1989 c 57 s 6, & 1975 1st ex.s. c 167 s 11 are each repealed.