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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 2779

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1990 Regular Session

By Representatives Fraser, Belcher, Sayan, Bowman, Rasmussen and Brumsickle

Read first time 1/19/90 and referred to Committee on Local Government.

AN ACT Relating to county purchasing departments; and amending RCW 36.32.240.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 36.32.240, chapter 4, Laws of 1963 as last amended by section 8, chapter 169, Laws of 1985 and RCW 36.32.240 are each amended to read as follows:

          In any county the ((board of county commissioners)) county legislative authority may by resolution establish a county purchasing department and thereafter such department shall contract on a competitive basis for all public works and purchase or lease on a competitive basis all supplies, materials, and equipment, for all departments of the county, exclusive of the county hospital, pursuant to the provisions hereof and under such rules as the board shall by resolution adopt, except for such contracts and purchases as shall be made pursuant to RCW 36.77.065, 36.77.070 and 36.82.130, and except for such contracts and purchases for the printing of election ballots, voting machine labels and all other election material containing the names of candidates and ballot titles, and performance-based contracts as defined in RCW 39.35A.020(3), that are negotiated under chapter 39.35A RCW:  PROVIDED, That in all class AA or class A counties ((or in any county of the first class)) it shall be mandatory that a purchasing department be established.