AN ACT Relating to vocational technical institutes; adding a new chapter to Title 28C RCW; creating new sections; and providing an effective date.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. All powers, duties, and functions of the superintendent of public instruction pertaining to vocational technical institutes are transferred to the state board for vocational technical institutes. All references to the superintendent of public instruction in the Revised Code of Washington shall be construed to mean the state board for vocational technical institutes when referring to the functions transferred in this section.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. All reports, documents, surveys, books, records, files, papers, or written material in the possession of the superintendent of public instruction pertaining to the powers, functions, and duties transferred shall be delivered to the custody of the state board for vocational technical institutes. All cabinets, furniture, office equipment, motor vehicles, and other tangible property employed by the superintendent of public instruction in carrying out the powers, functions, and duties transferred shall be made available to the state board for vocational technical institutes. All funds, credits, or other assets held in connection with the powers, functions, and duties transferred shall be assigned to the state board for vocational technical institutes.

Any appropriations made to the superintendent of public instruction for carrying out the powers, functions, and duties transferred shall, on the effective date of this section, be transferred and credited to the state board for vocational technical institutes.

Whenever any question arises as to the transfer of any personnel, funds, books, documents, records, papers, files, equipment, or other tangible property used or held in the exercise of the powers and the performance of the duties and functions transferred, the director of financial management shall make a determination as to the proper allocation and certify the same to the state agencies concerned.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. All employees of the superintendent of public instruction engaged in performing the powers, functions, and duties transferred are transferred to the jurisdiction of the state board for vocational technical institutes. All employees classified under chapter 41.06 RCW, the state civil service law, are assigned to the state board for vocational technical institutes to perform their usual duties upon the same terms as formerly, without any loss of rights, subject to any action that may be appropriate thereafter in accordance with the laws and rules governing state civil service.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 4. All rules and all pending business before the superintendent of public instruction pertaining to the powers, functions, and duties transferred shall be continued and acted upon by the state board for vocational technical institutes. All existing contracts and obligations shall remain in full force and shall be performed by the state board for vocational technical institutes.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 5. The transfer of the powers, duties, functions, and personnel of the superintendent of public instruction shall not affect the validity of any act performed prior to the effective date of this section.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 6. If apportionments of budgeted funds are required because of the transfers directed by sections 2 through 5 of this act, the director of financial management shall certify the apportionments to the agencies affected, the state auditor, and the state treasurer. Each of these shall make the appropriate transfer and adjustments in funds and appropriation accounts and equipment records in accordance with the certification.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 7. Nothing contained in sections 1 through 6 of this act may be construed to alter any existing collective bargaining unit or the provisions of any existing collective bargaining agreement until the agreement has expired or until the bargaining unit has been modified by action of the personnel board as provided by law.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 8. The state board for vocational technical institutes shall be composed of seven members appointed by the governor. Each member shall serve a four-year term. The initial appointees shall serve staggered terms as follows: The first and second appointees shall serve a term of two years; the third and fourth appointees shall serve a term of three years; and the fifth, sixth, and seventh appointees shall serve a term of four years.

In appointing members the governor shall consult representatives of business, labor, and education.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 9. Sections 1 and 8 of this act shall constitute a new chapter in Title 28C RCW.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 10. This act shall take effect July 1, 1990.