CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 6104

Chapter 428, Laws of 2009

61st Legislature
2009 Regular Session



STATE AGENCIES--HOURS OF OPERATION



EFFECTIVE DATE: 07/26/09

Passed by the Senate April 22, 2009
  YEAS 49   NAYS 0

BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
Passed by the House April 8, 2009
  YEAS 98   NAYS 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


 
CERTIFICATE

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
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Secretary
Approved May 8, 2009, 11:17 a.m.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
May 11, 2009







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SENATE BILL 6104
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AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

Passed Legislature - 2009 Regular Session
State of Washington61st Legislature2009 Regular Session

By Senators Prentice and Tom; by request of Office of Financial Management and Department of Personnel

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.


         Passed by the Senate April 22, 2009.
         Passed by the House April 8, 2009.
         Approved by the Governor May 8, 2009.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 11, 2009.