BILL REQ. #:  H-1490.2 

Read first time 02/10/11.   Referred to Committee on State Government & Tribal Affairs.

     AN ACT Relating to financial gains from the sale of course materials by university employees; and amending RCW 42.52.220.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 42.52.220 and 2005 c 106 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) Consistent with the state policy to encourage basic and applied scientific research by the state's research universities as stated in RCW 28B.140.005, each university may develop, adopt, and implement one or more written administrative processes that shall, upon approval by the governor, apply in place of the obligations imposed on universities and university research employees under RCW 42.52.030, 42.52.040, 42.52.080, 42.52.110, 42.52.120, 42.52.130, 42.52.140, 42.52.150, and 42.52.160. The universities shall coordinate on the development of administrative processes to ensure the processes are comparable. A university research employee in compliance with the processes authorized in this section shall be deemed to be in compliance with RCW 42.52.030, 42.52.040, 42.52.080, 42.52.110, 42.52.120, 42.52.130, 42.52.140, 42.52.150, and 42.52.160.
     (2) The executive ethics board shall enforce activity subject to the written approval processes under this section, as provided in RCW 42.52.360.
     (3) University employees who make financial gains from the sale of course materials they have authored and assigned to their classes, such as a published textbook or software, are exempt from the provisions of RCW 42.52.030 only to the extent of the sales to their students and only if the university employee donates any financial gains from those sales to the school's foundation or a student financial aid program.