SENATE BILL REPORT

EHB 1059

This analysis was prepared by non-partisan legislative staff for the use of legislative members in their deliberations. This analysis is not a part of the legislation nor does it constitute a statement of legislative intent.

As Reported by Senate Committee On:

Judiciary, March 25, 2009

Brief Description: Making technical corrections to various statutes at the request of the statute law committee.

Sponsors: Representatives Goodman, Kelley and Rodne; by request of Statute Law Committee.

Majority Report: Do pass.

Signed by Senators Kline, Chair; Regala, Vice Chair; McCaslin, Ranking Minority Member; Carrell, Kohl-Welles, Roach and Tom.

Background: The Statute Law Committee, or the Code Reviser, acting with committee approval, makes recommendations and submits legislation to the Legislature concerning deficiencies, conflicts, and obsolete provisions in the statutes.

In the event that during a session of the Legislature, two bills are passed that amend the same section of the code without reference to one another, the Code Reviser, in consultation with the Statute Law Committee, may merge all amendments that do not conflict and publish the section of the code.

Summary of Bill: Certain sections of the RCW are re-enacted to merge double amendments.

Technical corrections are made to reflect correct statutory references and inoperative language is removed from statute.

Staff Summary of Public Testimony: PRO: This is simply a cleanup bill. We actually made the bill shorter in the House by removing a couple of sections that are being amended in another bill. The Department of Ecology came to us and asked to remove some inoperative language that was in a section of law that was being addressed by the bill, and we worked with them to remove that language.