BILL REQ. #:  S-0891.1 

Read first time 01/18/2007.   Referred to Committee on Government Operations & Elections.

     AN ACT Relating to posting information on public agencies' web sites; and adding a new section to chapter 42.30 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 42.30 RCW to read as follows:
     (1) Every public agency that owns or maintains a public internet web site shall post to it all ordinances, resolutions, rules, regulations, orders, and directives adopted by its governing body within five business days of adoption. The minutes of all regular and special meetings of the governing body of every public agency that owns or maintains such a web site shall also be posted within five business days of the meetings.
     (2) Every public agency that owns or maintains a public internet web site shall post to it a schedule of the time and place of all regular meetings of the governing body. Except in cases of emergency, the public agency shall promptly post to its web site a notice of the time and place of all special meetings of the governing body.
     (3) Every public agency that owns or maintains a public internet web site shall at all times have posted to it a roster of the names of all members of its governing body, identifying the positions, and constituency where applicable, of all members. The web site shall at all times provide both the start date and end date of the elective or appointed terms of all members.
     (4) This section shall not be construed to affect existing public agency notice requirements in RCW 42.30.060 and 42.30.075.