SENATE BILL REPORT

SB 5032

BYSenators Pullen, Niemi and Rasmussen

Repealing obsolete sections in the revised code of Washington.

Senate Committee on Law & Justice

Senate Hearing Date(s):January 10, 1989

Majority Report:  Do pass.

      Signed by Senators Pullen, Chairman; McCaslin, Vice Chairman; Hayner, Madsen, Nelson, Newhouse, Niemi, Rinehart, Talmadge, Thorsness.

Senate Staff:Joyce Ansley (786-7418)

                  January 31, 1989

AS PASSED SENATE, JANUARY 25, 1989

BACKGROUND:

Several obsolete or superseded sections remain in the RCW.  Provisions relating to notaries public, optician licensing fee accounts, and drugless healers have been superseded.  A provision relating to traffic infraction costs was repealed in 1981.  References to the Department of Commerce and Economic Development (now the Department of Trade and Economic Development) are obsolete.  A provision calling for a study of athletic programs by 1984 is obsolete.

SUMMARY:

Obsolete or superseded language in the RCW is deleted or modified.  An obsolete statute relating to organized athletic programs is repealed.  A statute relating to traffic infraction costs which was repealed in 1981 is now deleted.  A provision relating to notaries public which was superseded is deleted.  A provision relating to optician licensing fee account which was superseded is deleted.  A law regulating drugless healers which was superseded is now repealed.  Obsolete references to the Department of Commerce and Economic Development (now the Department of Trade and Economic Development) are deleted.

Appropriation:    none

Revenue:    none

Fiscal Note:      none requested

Senate Committee - Testified: Marjorie Rombauer, Law Revision Commission; Dennis Cooper, Code Reviser's office; Gary Reid, Code Reviser's office