"NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   The legislature finds that it previously passed RCW 10.101.030 in which it required local governments to adopt caseload standards and indicated that "The standards endorsed by the Washington state bar association for the provision of public defense services should serve as guidelines to local legislative authorities in adopting standards." Despite this clear expression of legislative intent on the matter, the state supreme court subsequently ordered new standards and caseload limits for public defenders. The legislature finds that these standards will have a very detrimental fiscal impact on the criminal justice and court operations of cities and counties that already are struggling to address these costs. The order thus far has proved so unworkable, that the court has already postponed its impact until January 2015. The legislature finds that the caseload level to be borne by public defenders and associated expenses are matters of substantive law with the constitutional province of the legislature.
     The legislature, therefore, respectfully requests that the court vacate its order in In The Matter Of The Standards For Indigent Defense And Certification Of Compliance, Order No. 25700-A-1008 and subsequent related orders regarding indigent defense and public defender caseload limits."