CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE BILL 1732
Chapter 16, Laws of 2017
65th Legislature
2017 Regular Session
EDUCATOR PROFESSIONAL GROWTH PLANS--PUBLIC RECORDS ACT EXEMPTION
EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/23/2017
HOUSE BILL 1732
Passed Legislature - 2017 Regular Session
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State of Washington | 65th Legislature | 2017 Regular Session |
By Representatives Springer and Bergquist; by request of Professional Educator Standards Board
Read first time 01/27/17. Referred to Committee on Education.
AN ACT Relating to confidentiality of educator professional growth plans; and amending RCW
42.56.250.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 42.56.250 and 2014 c 106 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
The following employment and licensing information is exempt from public inspection and copying under this chapter:
(1) Test questions, scoring keys, and other examination data used to administer a license, employment, or academic examination;
(2) All applications for public employment, including the names of applicants, resumes, and other related materials submitted with respect to an applicant;
(3) Professional growth plans (PGPs) in educator license renewals submitted through the eCert system in the office of the superintendent of public instruction;
(4) The following information held by any public agency in personnel records, public employment related records, volunteer rosters, or included in any mailing list of employees or volunteers of any public agency: Residential addresses, residential telephone numbers, personal wireless telephone numbers, personal electronic mail addresses, social security numbers, driver's license numbers, identicard numbers, and emergency contact information of employees or volunteers of a public agency, and the names, dates of birth, residential addresses, residential telephone numbers, personal wireless telephone numbers, personal electronic mail addresses, social security numbers, and emergency contact information of dependents of employees or volunteers of a public agency. For purposes of this subsection, "employees" includes independent provider home care workers as defined in RCW
74.39A.240;
(((4))) (5) Information that identifies a person who, while an agency employee: (a) Seeks advice, under an informal process established by the employing agency, in order to ascertain his or her rights in connection with a possible unfair practice under chapter
49.60 RCW against the person; and (b) requests his or her identity or any identifying information not be disclosed;
(((5))) (6) Investigative records compiled by an employing agency conducting an active and ongoing investigation of a possible unfair practice under chapter
49.60 RCW or of a possible violation of other federal, state, or local laws prohibiting discrimination in employment;
(((6))) (7) Criminal history records checks for board staff finalist candidates conducted pursuant to RCW
43.33A.025;
(((7))) (8) Except as provided in RCW
47.64.220, salary and benefit information for maritime employees collected from private employers under RCW
47.64.220(1) and described in RCW
47.64.220(2); and
(((8))) (9) Photographs and month and year of birth in the personnel files of employees and workers of criminal justice agencies as defined in RCW
10.97.030. The news media, as defined in RCW
5.68.010(5), shall have access to the photographs and full date of birth. For the purposes of this subsection, news media does not include any person or organization of persons in the custody of a criminal justice agency as defined in RCW
10.97.030.
Passed by the House March 1, 2017.
Passed by the Senate April 4, 2017.
Approved by the Governor April 14, 2017.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 14, 2017.
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