BILL REQ. #:  Z-0820.4 

Read first time 01/09/2006.   Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

     AN ACT Relating to session law publication; amending RCW 44.20.030 and 44.20.050; adding a new section to chapter 40.04 RCW; and repealing RCW 40.04.035 and 40.04.040.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 44.20.030 and 1982 1st ex.s. c 32 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
     The statute law committee, after ((each and)) every legislative session, whether regular or ((extraordinary)) special, shall ((cause to be reproduced or printed)) have available, on demand, for temporary use separate copies of each act filed in the office of secretary of state within ten days after the filing thereof.
     ((The committee shall cause to be reproduced or printed three thousand copies or such additional number as may be necessary of temporary bound sets of all acts filed in the office of secretary of state within seventy-five days after the final adjournment of the legislature for that year.))

Sec. 2   RCW 44.20.050 and 1982 1st ex.s. c 32 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
     When all of the acts of any session of the legislature and initiative measures enacted by the people since the next preceding session have been certified to the statute law committee, the code reviser employed by the statute law committee shall make the proper headings and index of such acts or laws and, after such work has been completed, the statute law committee shall have published and bound ((in good buckram at least six hundred copies or such additional)) within seventy-five days after final adjournment of the legislature for that year as many copies as ((may be)) necessary of such acts and laws, with such headings and indexes, and such other matter as may be deemed essential, including a title page showing the session at which such acts were passed, the date of convening and adjournment of the session, and any other matter deemed proper, including a certificate by the secretary of state of such referendum measures as may have been enacted by the people since the next preceding session.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3   A new section is added to chapter 40.04 RCW to read as follows:
     The statute law committee, after each legislative session, shall distribute, sell, or exchange session laws as required under this section.
     (1) One set shall be given to the following: The United States supreme court library; each state adult correctional institution; each state mental institution; the state historical society; the state bar association; the Olympia press corps library; the University of Washington library; the library of each of the regional universities; The Evergreen State College library; the Washington State University library; each county law library; and the municipal reference branch of the Seattle public library.
     (2) One set shall be given to the following upon their request: Each member of the legislature; each state agency and its divisions; each state commission, committee, board, and council; each community college; each assistant attorney general; each member of the United States senate and house of representatives from this state; each state official whose office is created by the Constitution; each prosecuting attorney; and each public library in cities of the first class.
     (3) Two sets shall be given to the following: The administrator for the courts; the library of congress; the law libraries of any accredited law schools established in this state; and the governor.
     (4) Two sets shall be given to the following upon their request: Each United States district court in the state; and each office and branch office of the United States district attorneys in this state.
     (5) Three sets shall be given to the library of the circuit court of appeals of the ninth circuit, upon its request.
     (6) The following may request, and receive at no charge, as many sets as are needed for their official business: The senate and house of representatives; each county auditor, who shall receive and distribute sets for use by his or her county's officials; the office of the code reviser; the secretary of the senate; the chief clerk of the house of representatives; the supreme court; each court of appeals in the state; the superior courts; the state library; and the state law library.
     (7) Surplus copies of the session laws shall be sold and delivered by the statute law committee, in which case the price of the bound volumes shall be sufficient to cover costs. All money received from the sale of the session law sets shall be paid into the state treasury for the general fund.
     (8) The statute law committee may exchange session law sets for similar laws or legal materials of other states, territories, and governments, and make such other distribution of the sets as in its judgment seems proper.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 4   The following acts or parts of acts are each repealed:
     (1) RCW 40.04.035 (Temporary edition of session laws -- Distribution and sale) and 1995 c 24 s 2 & 1982 1st ex.s. c 32 s 5; and
     (2) RCW 40.04.040 (Permanent edition of session laws -- Distribution, sale, exchange -- Sale of surplus copies) and 1995 c 24 s 3, 1982 1st ex.s. c 32 s 1, 1981 c 162 s 1, 1977 ex.s. c 169 s 94, 1973 c 33 s 1, 1969 c 6 s 8, & 1941 c 150 s 4.