The code reviser makes recommendations to the Legislature for correction or removal of deficiencies, conflicts, or obsolete provisions of the Revised Code of Washington (RCW). These are technical non-substantive amendments to the RCW to fix internal references, cross references, obsolete terminology, double amendments, or otherwise improve the form of the RCW. All proposed legislation must be annotated to show the purposes, reasons, and history.
De-codification stops the publication of a law in the RCW, but does not eliminate the law since it is not a repeal. The code reviser recommends de-codification when a provision of law is no longer general and permanent which is the legal requirement for codification.
The following technical, non-substantive amendments are made: