BILL REQ. #:  S-0125.1 

Read first time 01/11/11.   Referred to Committee on Government Operations, Tribal Relations & Elections.

     AN ACT Relating to the personal use of state-provided electronic devices; and amending RCW 42.52.160.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 42.52.160 and 1996 c 213 s 7 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) No state officer or state employee may employ or use any person, money, or property under the officer's or employee's official control or direction, or in his or her official custody, for the private benefit or gain of the officer, employee, or another.
     (2) This section does not prohibit the use of public resources to benefit others as part of a state officer's or state employee's official duties.
     (3) This section does not prohibit the use of state-provided electronic devices for personal use, so long as the personal use does not diminish the product's value or interfere with any state employee's performance of public duties.
     (4) In addition to the provisions of subsection (3) of this section, the appropriate ethics boards may adopt rules providing exceptions to this section for occasional use of the state officer or state employee, of de minimis cost and value, if the activity does not result in interference with the proper performance of public duties.