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SENATE BILL 5560
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State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993 Regular Session
By Senators Prince, Vognild, Wojahn, Amondson and Roach
Read first time 02/03/93. Referred to Committee on Government Operations.
AN ACT Relating to consultants; amending RCW 43.09.230; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds and declares that the use of outside consultants is an increasing element in the public sector. The public has a right to be kept informed about the role of outside consultants in the public sector. The purpose of this act is to help ensure that public information is available.
Sec. 2. RCW 43.09.230 and 1989 c 168 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
The state auditor shall require from every taxing district and other political subdivisions financial reports covering the full period of each fiscal year, in accordance with the forms and methods prescribed by the state auditor, which shall be uniform for all accounts of the same class.
Such reports shall be prepared, certified, and filed with the division within one hundred fifty days after the close of each fiscal year.
The reports shall contain accurate statements, in summarized form, of all collections made, or receipts received, by the officers from all sources; all accounts due the public treasury, but not collected; and all expenditures for every purpose, and by what authority authorized; and also: (1) A statement of all costs of ownership and operation, and of all income, of each and every public service industry owned and operated by a municipality; (2) a statement of the entire public debt of every taxing district, to which power has been delegated by the state to create a public debt, showing the purpose for which each item of the debt was created, and the provisions made for the payment thereof; (3) a classified statement of all receipts and expenditures by any public institution; and (4) a statement of all expenditures for consultants, with the identification of each consultant, compensation, and the terms and conditions of each agreement or arrangement; together with such other information as may be required by the state auditor.
The reports shall be certified as to their correctness by the state auditor, the state auditor's deputies, or other person legally authorized to make such certificate.
Their substance shall be published in an annual volume of comparative statistics at the expense of the state as a public document.
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