AN
ACT Relating to the authority of the criminal justice training commission to
own and operate training facilities; amending RCW 43.101.080; and creating a
new section.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
43.101.080 and 1982 c 124 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
The
commission shall have all of the following powers:
(1)
To meet at such times and places as it may deem proper;
(2)
To adopt any rules and regulations as it may deem necessary;
(3)
To contract for services as it deems necessary in order to carry out its duties
and responsibilities;
(4)
To cooperate with and secure the cooperation of any department, agency, or
instrumentality in state, county, and city government, and other commissions
affected by or concerned with the business of the commission;
(5)
To do any and all things necessary or convenient to enable it fully and
adequately to perform its duties and to exercise the power granted to it;
(6)
To select and employ an executive director, and to empower him to perform such
duties and responsibilities as it may deem necessary;
(7)
To assume legal, fiscal, and program responsibility for all training conducted
by the commission;
(8)
To establish, by rule and regulation, standards for the training of criminal
justice personnel where such standards are not prescribed by statute;
(9)
To own, establish, and operate, or to contract with other
qualified institutions or organizations for the operation of, training and
education programs for criminal justice personnel and to purchase,
lease, or otherwise acquire, subject to the approval of the department
of general administration, a training facility or facilities necessary to the
conducting of such programs((: PROVIDED, That the commission shall not have
the power to invest any moneys received by it from any source for the purchase
of a training facility without prior approval of the legislature));
(10)
To establish, by rule and regulation, minimum curriculum standards for all
training programs conducted for employed criminal justice personnel;
(11)
To review and approve or reject standards for instructors of training programs
for criminal justice personnel, and to employ personnel on a temporary basis as
instructors without any loss of employee benefits to those instructors;
(12)
To direct the development of alternative, innovate, and interdisciplinary
training techniques;
(13)
To review and approve or reject training programs conducted for criminal
justice personnel and rules establishing and prescribing minimum training and
education standards recommended by the training standards and education boards;
(14)
To allocate financial resources among training and education programs conducted
by the commission;
(15)
To allocate training facility space among training and education programs
conducted by the commission;
(16)
To issue diplomas certifying satisfactory completion of any training or
education program conducted or approved by the commission to any person so
completing such a program;
(17)
To provide for the employment of such personnel as may be practical to serve as
temporary replacements for any person engaged in a basic training program as
defined by the commission;
(18)
To establish rules and regulations recommended by the training standards and
education boards prescribing minimum standards relating to physical, mental and
moral fitness which shall govern the recruitment of criminal justice personnel
where such standards are not prescribed by statute or constitutional provision.
All
rules and regulations adopted by the commission shall be adopted and
administered pursuant to the administrative procedure act, chapter 34.05 RCW,
and the open public meetings act, chapter 42.30 RCW.
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 2. The
legislature authorizes the department of general administration to transfer the
Washington state training and conference center located at 19010 First Avenue,
Burien, Washington, 98148, to the criminal justice training commission.
