BILL REQ. #:  Z-0406.1 

Read first time 03/01/13.   Referred to Committee on Appropriations.

     AN ACT Relating to restructuring and eliminating certain accounts used by the department of enterprise services; amending RCW 41.06.280 and 43.19.025; creating a new section; and repealing RCW 43.19.730.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 41.06.280 and 2011 1st sp.s. c 43 s 419 are each amended to read as follows:
     There is hereby created a fund within the state treasury, designated as the "personnel service fund," to be used by the office of financial management ((and the department of enterprise services)) as a revolving fund for the payment of salaries, wages, and operations required for the administration of the provisions of this chapter, applicable provisions of chapter 41.04 RCW, and chapter 41.60 RCW. An amount not to exceed one and one-half percent of the salaries and wages for all positions in the classified service in each of the agencies subject to this chapter, except the institutions of higher education, shall be charged to the operations appropriations of each agency and credited to the personnel service fund as the allotments are approved pursuant to chapter 43.88 RCW. Subject to the above limitations, the amount shall be charged against the allotments pro rata, at a rate to be fixed by the director from time to time which, together with income derived from services rendered under RCW 41.06.080, will provide the office of financial management ((and the department of enterprise services)) with funds to meet its anticipated expenditures during the allotment period, including the training requirements in RCW 41.06.500 and 41.06.530.
     The director shall fix the terms and charges for services rendered by ((the department of enterprise services and)) the office of financial management pursuant to RCW 41.06.080, which amounts shall be credited to the personnel service fund and charged against the proper fund or appropriation of the recipient of such services on a monthly basis. Payment for services so rendered under RCW 41.06.080 shall be made on a monthly basis to the state treasurer and deposited in the personnel service fund.
     Moneys from the personnel service fund shall be disbursed by the state treasurer by warrants on vouchers duly authorized by the office of financial management ((and the department of enterprise services)).

Sec. 2   RCW 43.19.025 and 2011 1st sp.s. c 43 s 202 are each amended to read as follows:
     The enterprise services account is created in the custody of the state treasurer and shall be used for the operations of all enterprise activities ((previously budgeted and accounted for in the following internal service funds: The motor transport account, the enterprise services management fund, the enterprise services facilities and services revolving fund, the central stores revolving fund, the surplus property purchase revolving fund, and the energy efficiency services account)) conducted by the department, except information technology services. All receipts from public printing must be deposited into the account. Only the director or the director's designee may authorize expenditures from the account. The account is subject to the allotment procedures under chapter 43.88 RCW, but an appropriation is not required for expenditures.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3   RCW 43.19.730 (Public printing revolving account) and 2011 1st sp.s. c 43 s 307 are each repealed.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 4   Any residual balance of funds remaining in the public printing revolving account eliminated by section 3 of this act on the effective date of this section shall be transferred to the enterprise services account.