CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        SENATE BILL 5095

 

 

 

 

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate April 20, 1999

  YEAS 45   NAYS 0

 

 

 

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House April 6, 1999

  YEAS 92   NAYS 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SENATE BILL 5095 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

                            Secretary

 

 

 

 

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

 

 

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.  

                                FILED

          

 

 

Governor of the State of Washington

                   Secretary of State

                  State of Washington

          _______________________________________________

 

                         SENATE BILL 5095

          _______________________________________________

 

                      AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

 

             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

 

By Senators Thibaudeau, Horn, Kohl‑Welles, Patterson, Haugen, Prentice and Costa

 

Read first time 01/13/1999.  Referred to Committee on State & Local Government.

Clarifying that public corporations, commissions, and authorities are public agencies for purposes of the open public meetings act. 


    AN ACT Relating to public corporations, commissions, and authorities; and adding a new chapter to 35.21 RCW

 

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

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 35.21 RCW to read as follows:

    A public corporation, commission, or authority created under this chapter, and officers and multi-member governing body thereof, are subject to general laws regulating local governments, multimember governing bodies, and local governmental officials, including, but not limited to, the requirement to be audited by the state auditor and various accounting requirements provided under chapter 43.09 RCW, the open public record requirements of chapter 42.17 RCW, the prohibition on using its facilities for campaign purposes under RCW 42.17.130, the open public meetings law of chapter 42.30 RCW, the code of ethics for municipal officers under chapter 42.23 RCW, and the local government whistleblower law under chapter 42.41 RCW.

 

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