SENATE BILL REPORT

SSB 5506

BYSenate Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Senators Halsan, Nelson and Talmadge)

Conforming statutes to revisions of the Administrative Procedure Act.

Senate Committee on Judiciary

Senate Hearing Date(s):January 28, 1987; February 10, 1987; February 20, 1987; February 26, 1987; March 3, 1987

Majority Report:  That Substitute Senate Bill No. 5506 be substituted therefor, and the substitute bill do pass.

      Signed by Senators Talmadge, Chairman; Halsan, Vice Chairman; McCaslin, Moore, Nelson, Newhouse.

Senate Staff:Dick Armstrong (786-7460)

                  March 16, 1987

AS PASSED SENATE, MARCH 13, 1987

BACKGROUND:

The Administrative Procedure Act (APA) is codified in Chapter 34.04 RCW.  Numerous statutes which establish the authority of various agencies to make rules and hear contested cases under the APA make specific references to Chapter 34.04 RCW.

SSB 5090 is a comprehensive rewrite of the entire APA statute.  If SSB 5090 is enacted into law, it is necessary to make technical amendments in other statutes to have them conform to the new APA.

SUMMARY:

A companion bill to SSB 5090 is enacted which makes technical references to the new APA act.

Fiscal Note:      requested

Effective Date:July 1, 1989

Senate Committee - Testified: William Anderson, Washington State Bar Association Task Force; Sharon Nelson, Dean Little, Washington State Bar Association Task Force; Frank Fennery, Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals; Larry Keaney, State Labor Council; Mark Brown, WFSE; Ann Sandstrom, Washington State Bar Association Task Force; Marvin Schurke, PERC; Ted Torve, Attorney General; Stephen D. Lundstron, Washington Administrative Law Judges Association; Dorothy Gerard, Higher Education Personnel Board; Gary Smith, IBA; Brett Buckley, L&I; Pat McIntyre