FINAL BILL REPORT

SSB 5401

C 291 L 01

Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Eliminating boards and commissions.

Sponsors:  Senate Committee on State & Local Government (originally sponsored by Senators Patterson and Finkbeiner; by request of Governor Locke).

Senate Committee on State & Local Government

Senate Committee on Ways & Means

House Committee on State Government

Background:  The Governor and the Office of Financial Management are required to review state boards and commissions, and in every odd-numbered year submit to the Legislature a recommended list of boards and commissions to be terminated or consolidated.  During the 1997-1999 biennium, Washington had 335 boards and commissions, down from a high of 569 during the 1991-1993 biennium.  Each board or commission operates in conjunction with and reports to a particular state agency or to the Governor's office.

Summary:  Eighteen boards, commissions, and committees are either repealed or abolished.  These boards, commissions, and committees are:  Department of Social and Health Services Regional Advisory Committees, the Department of Social and Health Services State Advisory Committee, the Washington State Job Training Coordinating Council, the Ecology Regional Citizen=s Advisory Committees - Model Toxic Control Act, Sea Urchin and Sea Cucumber Advisory Review Board, Coastal Crab Advisory Review Board, Ocean Pink Shrimp Advisory Review Board, Shorelines Guidelines Commission, Wetlands Mitigation Banking Advisory Team, and the Commission on Legislative Building Preservation and Renovation.

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate490

House     92 0 (House amended)

Senate    46 0 (Senate concurred)

Effective:  July 1, 2001