AN ACT Relating to reporting of public officials' financial affairs; amending RCW 42.17.240 and 42.17.2401; and creating new sections.

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

Sec. 1. Section 19, chapter 295, Laws of 1987 and RCW 42.17.240 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) Every elected official and every executive state officer shall after January 1st and before April 15th of each year file with the commission a statement of financial affairs for the preceding calendar year. However, any local elected official whose term of office expires immediately after December 31st shall file the statement required to be filed by this section for the year that ended on that December 31st.

(2) Every candidate shall within two weeks of becoming a candidate file with the commission a statement of financial affairs for the preceding twelve months.

(3) Every person appointed to a vacancy in an elective office or executive state officer position shall within two weeks of being so appointed file with the commission a statement of financial affairs for the preceding twelve months.

(4) A statement of a candidate or appointee filed during the period from January 1st to April 15th shall cover the period from January 1st of the preceding calendar year to the time of candidacy or appointment if the filing of the statement would relieve the individual of a prior obligation to file a statement covering the entire preceding calendar year.

(5) No individual may be required to file more than once in any calendar year.

(6) Each statement of financial affairs filed under this section shall be sworn as to its truth and accuracy.

(7) For the purposes of this section, the term "executive state officer" includes those listed in ((~~RCW 43.17.020 and those listed in~~)) RCW 42.17.2401.

(8) This section does not apply to incumbents or candidates for a federal office or the office of precinct committee officer.

Sec. 2. Section 2, chapter 34, Laws of 1984 as last amended by section 13, chapter 36, Laws of 1988 and RCW 42.17.2401 are each amended to read as follows:

For the purposes of RCW 42.17.240, the term "executive state officer" includes:

(1) The chief administrative law judge, the director of financial management, the director of personnel, the director of community development, the secretary of social and health services, the director of ecology, the director of labor and industries, the director of agriculture, the director of fisheries, the director of wildlife, the director of licensing, the director of general administration, the director of trade and economic development, the director of veterans affairs, the director of revenue, the secretary of corrections, the director of the state system of community colleges, the director of the department of information services, the executive secretary of the forest practices appeals board, the director of the gambling commission, the director of the higher education personnel board, the secretary of transportation, the executive secretary of the horse racing commission, the executive secretary of the human rights commission, the ((~~administrator~~)) director of the interagency committee for outdoor recreation, the director of parks and recreation, the executive secretary of the ((~~board of prison terms and paroles~~)) indeterminate sentence review board, the ((~~administrator~~)) executive director of the public disclosure commission, the director of retirement systems, the secretary of the utilities and transportation commission,!se the executive secretary of the board of tax appeals, the executive secretary of the higher education facilities authority, the executive secretary of the health care facilities authority, the secretary of the state finance committee, the administrator of the Washington state health care authority, the commissioner of employment security, the administrator of the Washington basic health plan, the director of the office of minority and women's business enterprises, the director of the lottery commission, the executive director of the state investment board, the director of the energy office, the director of the department of services for the blind, the adjutant general, the public printer, the chief of the Washington state patrol, the superintendent of the school for the deaf, the superintendent of the school for the blind, the state librarian, the chairman of the energy facility site evaluation council, the president of each of the regional and state universities and the president of The Evergreen State College, each district and each campus president of each state community college;

(2) Each professional staff member of the office of the governor;

(3) Each professional staff member of the legislature; and

(4) Each member of the state board for community college education, information services board, forest practices board, forest practices appeals board, gambling commission, wildlife commission, higher education personnel board, transportation commission, horse racing commission, human rights commission, board of industrial insurance appeals, liquor control board, interagency committee for outdoor recreation, parks and recreation commission, personnel board, personnel appeals board, ((~~board of prison terms and paroles~~)) indeterminate sentence review board, public disclosure commission, ((~~public employees' retirement system board,~~)) public pension commission, University of Washington board of regents, Washington State University board of regents, board of tax appeals, ((~~teachers' retirement system board of trustees,~~)) Central Washington University board of trustees, Eastern Washington University board of trustees, The Evergreen State College board of trustees, Western Washington University board of trustees, board of trustees of each community college, state housing finance commission, lottery commission, pollution control hearings board, shorelines hearing board, state convention and trade center board of directors, hospital commission, state investment board, community economic revitalization board, committee for deferred compensation, state employees' benefits board, oil and gas conservation committee, Washington public power supply system executive board, higher education coordinating board, Washington health care facilities authority, higher education facilities authority, pacific northwest electric power and conservation planning council, state health coordinating council, and the utilities and transportation commission.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. When section 2 of this act is codified, the code reviser shall arrange the names of the agencies in each subsection in alphabetical order.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 4. Persons identified as executive officers under RCW 42.17.2401(4), who were appointed to their positions before the effective date of this act, and who were not required to file a statement of financial affairs at the time of their appointment, are exempt from the requirements of RCW 42.17.240 until they are reappointed to such positions.