BILL REQ. #:  Z-0713.1 

Read first time 02/26/09.   Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.

     AN ACT Relating to state agency hours of operation; and amending RCW 42.04.060 and 42.56.090.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 42.04.060 and 1973 2nd ex.s. c 1 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
     All state elective and appointive officers shall keep their offices open for the transaction of business ((from eight o'clock a.m. to five o'clock p.m. of each business day from Monday through Friday,)) for a minimum of forty hours per week, except weeks that include state legal holidays ((excepted. On Saturday, such offices may be closed)).
     This section shall not apply to the courts of record of this state or to their officers nor to the office of the attorney general and the lieutenant governor.

Sec. 2   RCW 42.56.090 and 1995 c 397 s 12 are each amended to read as follows:
     Public records shall be available for inspection and copying during the customary office hours of the agency, the office of the secretary of the senate, and the office of the chief clerk of the house of representatives((: PROVIDED, That if the entity does not have customary office hours of at least)) for a minimum of thirty hours per week, ((the public records shall be available from nine o'clock a.m. to noon and from one o'clock p.m. to four o'clock p.m. Monday through Friday, excluding)) except weeks that include state legal holidays, unless the person making the request and the agency, the office of the secretary of the senate, or the office of the chief clerk of the house of representatives or its representative agree on a different time.