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ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL NO. 678
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C 024 L 87
State of Washington 50th Legislature 1987 Regular Session
By Representatives Pruitt, D. Sommers and Wang; by request of Department of Labor and Industries
Read first time 2/6/87 and referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs.
AN ACT Relating to the right-to-know advisory council; and amending RCW 49.70.120.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. Section 17, chapter 289, Laws of 1984 as amended by section 5, chapter 409, Laws of 1985 and RCW 49.70.120 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) The
director shall establish in the department a right-to-know advisory council,
which shall consist of sixteen members appointed by the director. Each of
these members shall be appointed for a term of three years, provided that of
the members of the council first appointed by the director, five shall serve
for terms of one year, five shall serve for terms of two years, and five shall
serve for terms of three years. Of these members, one shall be appointed from
persons having ((training)) knowledge and experience in
industrial hygiene recommended by recognized labor unions; one from persons
recommended by recognized agricultural organizations; one from persons
recommended by recognized migrant labor organizations; one from persons
recommended by recognized environmental organizations; one from persons
recommended by recognized public interest organizations; one from persons
recommended by recognized organizations of chemical industries; one from
persons recommended by recognized community organizations; one from persons
recommended by recognized organizations of petroleum industries; one from
persons recommended by recognized organizations of fire fighters; one from
persons recommended by recognized business or trade organizations; one from
persons recommended by recognized organizations of small business; one from
persons holding an M.D. degree recommended by recognized public health
organizations; two persons from professional accident and safety organizations;
one person from the technology-based industries; and one from persons with
training and experience in environmental epidemiology and toxicology
recommended by recognized research or academic organizations. In the event
that no recommendations for a particular category of membership are made to the
director three months after June 7, 1984, in the case of the initial
appointments, or within sixty days of the date of the expiration of the term of
office of any member or the occurrence of any vacancy in the case of subsequent
appointments, the director shall appoint as a member for that category of
membership a person whom the director believes will be representative thereof.
(2) A majority of the membership of the council constitutes a quorum for the transaction of council business. Action may be taken and motions and resolutions adopted by the council at any meeting thereof by the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the council present and voting.
(3) The ((council
shall meet regularly as it may determine, and shall also meet at the call of
the department)) director or the director's designee shall be the
nonvoting ex officio chair of the council. The council shall meet at least
semiannually at the call of the chair.
(4) The
council shall appoint ((a chair and)) other officers as may be necessary
from among its members. The council may, within the limits of any funds
appropriated or otherwise made available to it for this purpose, appoint such
staff or hire such experts as it may require.
(5) Members of the council shall serve without compensation, but the council may, within the limits of funds appropriated or otherwise made available to it for such purposes, reimburse its members for necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their official duties in accordance with RCW 43.03.050 and 43.03.060. Passed the House February 27, 1987.