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                                           SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 342

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By House Committee on State Government (originally sponsored by Representatives H. Sommers, Jacobsen, J. Williams and Unsoeld)

Read first time 2/25/87 and passed to Committee on Rules.

AN ACT Relating to public printing; and amending RCW 43.78.030.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 43.78.030, chapter 8, Laws of 1965 as last amended by section 2, chapter 164, Laws of 1982 and RCW 43.78.030 are each amended to read as follows:

          The public printer shall print and bind the session laws, the journals of the two houses of the legislature, all bills, resolutions, documents, and other printing and binding of either the senate or house, as the same may be ordered by the legislature; and such forms, blanks, record books, and printing and binding of every description as may be ordered by all state officers, boards, commissions, and institutions, and the supreme court, and the court of appeals and officers thereof, as the same may be ordered on requisition, from time to time, by the proper authorities((:  PROVIDED, That)).  This section shall not apply to the printing of the supreme court, and the court of appeals reports((:  PROVIDED FURTHER, That)).  Where any institution or institution of higher learning of the state is or may become equipped with facilities for doing such work, it may do any printing:  (1) For itself, or (2) for any other state institution when such printing is done as part of a course of study relative to the profession of printer((:  AND PROVIDED FURTHER, That except under RCW 43.19.532,)).  Any printing and binding of whatever description as may be needed by any institution of higher learning, institution or agency of the state department of social and health services not at Olympia, or the supreme court or the court of appeals or any officer thereof, the estimated cost of which shall not exceed ((two hundred)) one thousand dollars, may be done by any private printing company in the general vicinity within the state of Washington so ordering, if in the judgment of the officer of ((said)) the agency so ordering, the saving in time and processing justifies the award to such local private printing concern.  Further, where any printing or binding needed by an institution of higher education is to be paid for from research grant or contract funds, short course revenues, or other nonstate appropriated funding source, such printing or binding may be done by any private printing company in the  state of Washington, irrespective of the dollar limit specified in this section, when in the judgment of the officer of the institution so ordering, the saving in time or cost justifies the award to such local private printing concern.

Beginning on July 1, 1989, and on July 1 of each succeeding odd-numbered year, the dollar limit specified in this section shall be adjusted as follows:  The office of financial management shall calculate such limit by adjusting the previous biennium's limit by an appropriate federal inflationary index reflecting the rate of inflation for the previous biennium.  Such amounts shall be rounded to the nearest fifty dollars.