| Passed by the Senate April 22, 2009 YEAS 49 BRAD OWEN ________________________________________ President of the Senate Passed by the House April 8, 2009 YEAS 98 FRANK CHOPP ________________________________________ Speaker of the House of Representatives | I, Thomas Hoemann, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 6104 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. THOMAS HOEMANN ________________________________________ Secretary | |
| Approved May 8, 2009, 11:17 a.m. CHRISTINE GREGOIRE ________________________________________ Governor of the State of Washington | May 11, 2009 Secretary of State State of Washington |
| State of Washington | 61st Legislature | 2009 Regular Session |
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)).
Customary business hours must be posted on the agency or office's web
site and made known by other means designed to provide the public with
notice.
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.
Customary business hours must be posted on the agency or office's web
site and made known by other means designed to provide the public with
notice.