Concerning the capital budget.

Concerning state general obligation bonds and related accounts.

Concerning public employer collection and remission of dues and other amounts on behalf of labor organizations.

Authorizes a public employer, that collects and remits dues and other amounts on behalf of a labor organization, to retain up to five percent of the amount collected to offset the cost of administration.

Applies to employers under: (1) Chapter 47.64 RCW (marine employees);

(2) Chapter 28B.52 RCW (academic personnel in community colleges);

(3) Chapter 41.59 RCW (the educational employment relations act);

(4) Chapter 41.80 RCW (the personnel system reform act);

(5) Chapter 49.39 RCW (symphony musicians); and

(6) Chapter 41.76 RCW (public four-year institutions of higher education).

Requires the office of financial management to establish the amount retained by state agencies.

Concerning central service functions, powers, and duties of state government.

Transfers powers, duties, and functions of the department of enterprise services, regarding human resources functions, to the office of financial management.

Provides additional oversight of the procurement and contracting for information technology goods and services by the state chief information officer within the consolidated technology services agency.

Transfers certain powers and duties of the department of enterprise services, regarding information technology procurement functions, to the office of the state chief information officer.

Requires the department to consult with the office when it makes information technology goods and services available to ensure consistency with standards and policies to govern information technology as established by the office.

Requires the office of financial management to evaluate: (1) Opportunities for colocating and consolidating state facilities in the same geographic area; and

(2) The impact colocation would have on the cost and delivery of agency programs, including whether program delivery would be enhanced due to the centralization of services.

Concerning the continuation of tax preferences supporting the semiconductor materials manufacturing industry.

Extends the preferential tax rates, by ten years, for manufacturers and processors for hire of semiconductor materials in order to maintain and grow jobs in the semiconductor cluster.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Mar 30	First reading, referred to Ways & Means.