RCW 43.31.504 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 31 / Section 504
RCW 43.31.504: Child care facility fund committee—Generally.
Status: in_force

The child care facility fund committee is established within the *business assistance center of the department of commerce. The committee shall administer the child care facility fund, with review by the director of commerce. (1) The committee shall have five members. The director of commerce shall appoint the members, who shall include: (a) Two persons experienced in investment finance and having skills in providing capital to new businesses, in starting and operating businesses, and providing professional services to small or expanding businesses; (b) One person representing a philanthropic organization with experience in evaluating funding requests; (c) One child care services expert; and (d) One early childhood development expert. In making these appointments, the director shall give careful consideration to ensure that the various geographic regions of the state are represented and that members will be available for meetings and are committed to working cooperatively to address child care needs in Washington state. (2) The committee shall elect officers from among its membership and shall adopt policies and procedures specifying the lengths of terms, methods for filling vacancies, and other matters necessary to the ongoing functioning of the committee. (3) Committee members shall serve without compensation, but may request reimbursement for travel expenses as provided in RCW 43.03.050 and 43.03.060 . (4) Committee members shall not be liable to the state, to the child care facility fund, or to any other person as a result of their activities, whether ministerial or discretionary, as members except for willful dishonesty or intentional violation of the law. The department of commerce may purchase liability insurance for members and may indemnify these persons against the claims of others.
RCW 43.10.305 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 305
RCW 43.10.305: Hate crimes and bias incidents hotline.
Status: in_force

(1) The attorney general's office shall oversee a hate crimes and bias incidents hotline staffed during business hours and dedicated to assisting people who have been targeted or affected by hate crimes and bias incidents. The hotline shall: (a) Provide appropriate information and referral to people who have been targeted or affected by hate crimes and bias incidents that is victim-centered, culturally competent, and trauma-informed; (b) Be as accessible to as many residents of Washington as possible, regardless of language proficiency, as much as is practically possible within the limits of the resources appropriated to operate the hotline. (2)(a) The attorney general's office shall: (i) To the extent possible, identify local service providers and culturally specific services to refer people who have been targeted or affected by hate crimes and bias incidents; (ii) Coordinate and partner with other counties and any other hotlines relevant to the hotline; and (iii) Establish and appoint an advisory committee that will include, among others, representatives from legal aid, at least five community organizations working with historically underserved communities across the state, local and culturally specific service providers, state agencies, and any other entities the attorney general's office deems relevant to the program. The advisory committee shall provide advice and assistance regarding program design, operation, outreach, service delivery objectives and priorities, and funding. (b) To ensure that the advisory committee has diverse and inclusive representation of those affected by its work, advisory committee members shall be compensated as provided in RCW 43.03.220 . (c) Advisory committee members are not entitled to be reimbursed for travel expenses if they are elected officials or are participating on behalf of an employer, governmental entity, or other organization. (d)(i) By July 1, 2025, the attorney general's office must develop and implement a pilot hotline program that will assist individuals targeted or affected by hate crimes in at least three counties. One of those counties must be in eastern Washington. (ii) By January 1, 2027, the attorney general's office must implement the program statewide. (e) No later than July 1, 2027, and at least annually thereafter, the attorney general's office must provide information regarding hate crimes and bias incidents reported to the hotline during the prior calendar year to the governor, senate, and house of representatives, and make the information publicly available on its website, excluding the personal identifying information of any individual. (f) Any information regarding hate crimes or bias incidents that reveals the personal identifying information of any individual: (i) Must not be included in any public report prepared in accordance with this section; and (ii) is confidential and exempt from public inspection, copying, or disclosure under chapter 42.56 RCW. (3) Any law enforcement agency in this state that receives a report of a hate crime or bias incident shall provide the phone number and website address of the hotline to the targeted or affected person. (4) Whenever a hate crime is reported to the hotline by a member of the public, the hotline shall inquire whether the person reported the hate crime or bias incident to law enforcement. If the person targeted or affected by the hate crime or bias incident consents to sharing personal identifying information with the primary local law enforcement agency of the jurisdiction in which the hate crime or bias incident occurred, the hotline shall promptly share the targeted or affected person's name, address, and contact information with the primary local law enforcement agency. If the targeted or affected person consents to share some but not all personal identifying information, the hotline must share only the information the targeted or affected person has consented to share. (5) The definitions in this subsection apply throughout this section unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (a) "Bias incident" means a person's hostile expression of animus toward another person, relating to the other person's actual or perceived characteristics as listed in RCW 9A.36.080 (1) or 49.60.030 (1), of which criminal investigation or prosecution is impossible or inappropriate. "Bias incident" does not include any incident in which probable cause of the commission of a crime is established by the investigating law enforcement officer, and does not include expressions of opposition or support for the actions or policies of a foreign or domestic government protected under free speech. (b) "Hate crime" means the commission, attempted commission, or alleged commission of an offense described in RCW 9A.36.080 . (c) "Hate crimes and bias incidents hotline" or "hotline" means the communications channel or channels overseen by the attorney general's office pursuant to this section. (d) "Law enforcement agency" means any general or limited authority Washington law enforcement agency as those terms are defined in RCW 10.93.020 . (e) "Law enforcement officer" means any general authority, limited authority, or specially commissioned Washington peace officer as those terms are defined in RCW 10.93.020 . (f) "Local service providers" means providers of services to people who have been targeted or affected by hate crimes and bias incidents, including without limitation crisis intervention, advocacy, information and referral, and outreach and awareness, that are located in the same geographic area that the hate crime or bias incident occurred or where the targeted or affected person resides. (g) "Personal identifying information" means any information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity, such as name, prior legal name, alias, mother's maiden name, date or place of birth, residence, mailing address, telephone number, email address, social security number, driver's license number, bank account number, or other similar information. (h) "Protected class" means a class of individuals who are members of, or perceived as being members of, a group based on one or more of the following shared characteristics: Race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, or mental, physical, or sensory disability.
RCW 43.376.030 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 376 / Section 030
RCW 43.376.030: State agency tribal liaison.
Status: in_force

The position of tribal liaison within a state agency is responsible for: (1) Assisting the state agency in developing and implementing state and agency policies that promote effective communication and collaboration between the state agency and tribal governments; (2) Serving as a contact person with tribal governments and maintaining communication between the state agency and affected tribal governments; and (3) Coordinating training of state agency employees in government-to-government relations.
RCW 43.10.190 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 190
RCW 43.10.190: Legal services revolving fund—Direct payments from agencies.
Status: in_force

In cases where there are unanticipated demands for legal services or where there are insufficient funds on hand or available for payment through the legal services revolving fund or in other cases of necessity, the attorney general may request payment for legal services directly from agencies for whom the services are performed to the extent that revenues or other funds are available. Upon approval by the director of financial management the agency shall make the requested payment. The payment may be made on either an advance or reimbursable basis as approved by the director of financial management.
RCW 43.43.005 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 43 / Section 005
RCW 43.43.005: Comprehensive outreach and marketing strategic plan.
Status: in_force

To ensure that it is adequately and thoroughly reaching potential recruits, the Washington state patrol must develop a comprehensive outreach and marketing strategic plan that expands on the success of current strategies and looks for ways to tap into groups or individuals that do not currently show an interest in the state patrol or law enforcement as a career. The plan must include, but is not limited to, expanding marketing and outreach efforts online and through other media outlets and expanding recruitment relationships in respective communities. The plan must also include polling applicants about their application. Results from the polling must be tracked to determine the success of each outreach method.
RCW 43.19.011 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 19 / Section 011
RCW 43.19.011: Director—Powers and duties.
Status: in_force

(1) The director of enterprise services shall supervise and administer the activities of the department of enterprise services and shall advise the governor and the legislature with respect to matters under the jurisdiction of the department. (2) In addition to other powers and duties granted to the director, the director shall have the following powers and duties: (a) Enter into contracts on behalf of the state to carry out the purposes of this chapter; (b) Accept and expend gifts and grants that are related to the purposes of this chapter, whether such grants be of federal or other funds; (c) Appoint deputy and assistant directors and such other special assistants as may be needed to administer the department. These employees are exempt from the provisions of chapter 41.06 RCW; (d) Adopt rules in accordance with chapter 34.05 RCW and perform all other functions necessary and proper to carry out the purposes of this chapter; (e) Delegate powers, duties, and functions as the director deems necessary for efficient administration, but the director shall be responsible for the official acts of the officers and employees of the department; (f) Apply for grants from public and private entities, and receive and administer any grant funding received for the purpose and intent of this chapter; and (g) Perform other duties as are necessary and consistent with law. (3) The director may establish additional advisory groups as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
RCW 43.43.380 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 43 / Section 380
RCW 43.43.380: Minimum salaries—Report.
Status: in_force

(1)(a) The minimum monthly salary paid to state patrol troopers and sergeants must be competitive with law enforcement agencies within the boundaries of the state of Washington, guided by the results of a survey undertaken in the collective bargaining process during each biennium. Compensation must be calculated using base salary, premium pay (a pay received by more than a majority of employees), education pay, and longevity pay. The compensation comparison data is based on the Washington state patrol and the law enforcement agencies listed in this section. Increases for sergeants will be extended to the salary levels for captains and lieutenants through the collective bargaining process to ensure proportionality of increases. (b)(i) Until July 1, 2028, the comparisons for determining competitiveness with other law enforcement agency salary levels must be guided by the average of compensation paid to the corresponding rank from the Seattle police department, King county sheriff's office, Tacoma police department, Snohomish county sheriff's office, Spokane police department, and Vancouver police department. (ii) Beginning July 1, 2028, the comparisons for determining competitiveness with other law enforcement agency salary levels must be guided by the average of compensation paid to the corresponding rank from the Seattle police department, King county sheriff's office, Tacoma police department, Snohomish county sheriff's office, Spokane police department, and Vancouver police department, unless the office of financial management determines that one or more agencies should be replaced in this comparison with another law enforcement agency pursuant to the periodic evaluation process specified in (b)(iii) of this subsection. (iii) By January 1, 2028, and each decade thereafter, the office of financial management must conduct an evaluation of the six agencies that are relevant for comparison to ensure state patrol troopers and sergeant salary levels are competitive with other law enforcement agencies within the boundaries of the state of Washington. If the office of financial management determines that one or more agencies specified in (b)(ii) of this subsection should be replaced in this comparison with a different law enforcement agency that is more relevant to ensure salary competitiveness, the office of financial management may utilize that revised compensation comparison data in the survey undertaken in the collective bargaining process during each biennium. (2) By December 1, 2024, as part of the salary survey required in this section, the office of financial management must report to the governor and transportation committees of the legislature on the efficacy of Washington state patrol recruitment and retention efforts. Using the results of the 2016 salary survey as the baseline data, the report must include an analysis of voluntary resignations of state patrol troopers and sergeants and a comparison of state patrol academy class sizes and trooper graduations.
RCW 43.30.520 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 30 / Section 520
RCW 43.30.520: Property transactions, restrictive conveyances, highway purpose—Existing law to continue.
Status: in_force

Nothing in this chapter shall be interpreted as changing existing law with respect to: (1) Property given to a state agency on restrictive conveyance with provision for reversion to the grantor or for the vesting of title in another if and when such property is not used by the agency concerned for the stipulated purposes; (2) Land or other property acquired by any state agency for highway purposes.
RCW 43.27A.220 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 27A / Section 220
RCW 43.27A.220: "Person" defined.
Status: in_force

Whenever the word "person" is used in RCW 43.27A.190 , it shall be construed to include any political subdivision, government agency, municipality, industry, public or private corporation, copartnership, association, firm, individual or any other entity whatsoever.
RCW 43.330.590 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 330 / Section 590
RCW 43.330.590: Employee ownership program.
Status: in_force

(1) Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, the Washington employee ownership program is created to support the efforts of businesses considering a sale to an employee ownership structure. The Washington employee ownership program must be administered by the department and overseen by the Washington employee ownership commission established in RCW 43.330.592 . (2)(a) In implementing the Washington employee ownership program, the director must: (i) Create a network of technical support and service providers for businesses considering employee ownership structures; (ii) Work with state agencies whose regulations and programs affect employee-owned businesses, and businesses with the potential to become employee owned, to enhance opportunities and reduce barriers; (iii) Partner with relevant private, nonprofit, and public organizations including, but not limited to, professional and trade associations, financial institutions, unions, small business development centers, economic and workforce development organizations, and nonprofit entities to promote employee ownership benefits and succession models; (iv) Develop and make available materials regarding employee ownership benefits and succession models; (v) Provide a referral service to help qualified business owners find appropriate legal, financial, and technical employee ownership resources and services; (vi) Work with the department of financial institutions and appropriate state, private, and nonprofit entities to shape and implement guidance on lending to broad-based employee ownership vehicles; (vii) Create an inventory of employee-owned businesses in the state including employee stock ownership plans, worker cooperatives, and employee ownership trusts; and (viii) Subject to the successful award of federal funding for this purpose, establish a revolving loan program to assist existing small businesses to finance a transition to employee ownership. (b) Loans offered by the revolving loan program must be used to help facilitate the purchase of an interest in an employee stock ownership plan or worker-owned cooperative from the owner or owners of a qualified business, provided that: (i) The transaction results in the employee stock ownership plan or worker cooperative holding a majority interest in the business, on a fully diluted basis; and (ii) If used to assist in the purchase of an interest in an employee stock ownership plan, the employee stock ownership plan: (A) Has appointed an independent trustee; or (B) has, as a trustee, person, or entity, completed education on best practices for employee stock ownership plans. (c) Loans financing the sale of an interest to a worker cooperative shall be extended based on repayment ability and shall not require a personal or entity guarantee. In meeting the requirement in (b) of this subsection, lending guidelines must be established for worker cooperatives not based on any personal or entity guarantees provided by the member owners or the selling business owner. These guidelines may include but are not limited to cash flow-based underwriting, character-based lending, and reliance on business assets. (d) In order to support the revolving loan program, the director or the director's designee must apply for federal funding opportunities that: (i) Support capitalization of state revolving loan programs; and (ii) Support businesses that seek to transition to employee ownership. (e) Amounts from the repayment of loans offered by the revolving loan program must be deposited in the employee ownership revolving loan program account established in RCW 43.330.595 . (3) The director or the director's designee may contract with consultants, agents, or advisors necessary to further the purposes of this section. (4) Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, by December 1st each year, the department must submit a report to the appropriate committees of the legislature on program activities and the number of employee-owned businesses and employee-owned trusts in the state, including recommendations for improvement and barriers for businesses considering employee ownership structures in Washington state. The first report must include rules and guidelines for the administration of the program, as established by the Washington employee ownership commission. (5) For the purposes of this section: (a) "Employee-owned business" means: (i) An employee cooperative established under chapter 23.78 , 23.86, 23.100, or 24.06 RCW that has at least 50 percent of its board of directors consisting of, and elected by, its employees; or (ii) An entity owned in whole or in part by employee stock ownership plans as defined in 26 U.S.C. Sec. 4975(e)(7). (b) "Qualified business" means a person subject to tax under Title 82 RCW, including but not limited to a C corporation, S corporation, limited liability company, partnership, limited liability partnership, sole proprietorship, or other similar pass-through entity, that is not owned in whole or in part by an employee ownership trust, that does not have an employee stock ownership plan, or that is not, in whole or in part, a worker-owned cooperative. (6) Program support shall only be made available to businesses headquartered in Washington state. For the purposes of this section, "headquartered in Washington state" means that Washington state is its principal place of business or the state where it is incorporated. (7) The director shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this section. (8) This section expires June 30, 2030.
RCW 43.03.150 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 03 / Section 150
RCW 43.03.150: Advance payment of travel expenses—Authorized.
Status: in_force

Whenever it becomes necessary for an elective or appointive official or employee of the state to travel and to incur expenses for which reimbursement may be made, it shall be the policy of the state to make reasonable allowances to such officers and employees in advance of expenditure, on request of such officer or employee, under appropriate rules and regulations prescribed by the director of financial management.
RCW 43.390.020 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 390 / Section 020
RCW 43.390.020: Equitable access to credit program.
Status: in_force

(1) Subject to appropriation, the department of commerce shall create and operate the equitable access to credit program. The purpose of the equitable access to credit program is to award grants to qualified lending institutions, using funds generated by business and occupation tax credits created in RCW 82.04.4499 , for the purpose of providing access to credit for historically underserved communities. The equitable access to credit program must be governed by the provisions of this chapter and by any guidelines developed and rules adopted by the department of commerce pursuant to this chapter. (2) The following requirements apply to the operation of the equitable access to credit program: (a) No more than 25 percent of all grants awarded in any calendar year may be awarded to the same grant recipient; (b) Up to 20 percent of an individual grant award may be used by the grant recipient to fund a loan loss reserve, technical assistance, and/or small business training programs; (c) At least 65 percent of the value of all grants awarded in any calendar year must be provided for native community development financial institution grantees or grantees to provide services or invest, or both, in rural counties as defined in RCW 82.14.370 ; and (d) Beginning in fiscal year 2022, up to five percent of the program revenues may be used for all agencies' staffing and other administrative costs related to the implementation of chapter 189, Laws of 2022. In the event that the statewide limit in RCW 82.04.4499 (3) is not reached, the percentage used for administration may be increased as necessary to maintain normal staffing operations, not to exceed 10 percent. (3) In order to receive a grant award under the equitable access to credit program, a qualified lending institution must: (a) Be recognized by the United States department of the treasury as: (i) An emerging community development financial institution; or (ii) A certified community development financial institution; (b) Match any grant awarded by the equitable access to credit program on: (i) At least a five percent basis, if the institution is recognized by the United States department of the treasury as an emerging community development financial institution; (ii) At least a 10 percent basis, if the institution: (A) Is recognized by the United States department of the treasury as a certified community development financial institution; and (B) Has net assets of fewer than $3,000,000 at the time of the grant application; or (iii) At least a 25 percent basis, if the institution: (A) Is recognized by the United States department of the treasury as a certified emerging community development financial institution; and (B) Has net assets of $3,000,000 or more at the time of the grant application; (c) Be registered as a nonprofit organization exempt from taxation under Title 26 U.S.C. Sec. 501(c)(3) of the federal internal revenue code of 1986, as amended, as of June 9, 2022; and (d) Demonstrate a history of lending in Washington. (4) The director must appoint members to an advisory board that will assist the department in ranking applications for the grants. The department is encouraged to seek representation from members with relevant expertise, including those from the banking industry familiar with community development financial institutions, rural economic development professionals, local government representatives, and representatives from federally recognized Indian tribes. The department shall seek, to the greatest extent possible, a fair geographic balance. (5)(a) The following criteria must be considered in ranking applications: (i) The number and total value of loans and investments closed during the previous five-year period by the qualified lending institution in Washington and the percentage of those loans and investments that went to historically underserved communities; (ii) Funds leveraged by the proposed grant award, which may be no less than 25 percent for certified community development financial institutions with net assets of $3,000,000 or more at the time of the grant application; (iii) Projected loan or investment production with the award over the performance period of the grant; (iv) How the award supports the growth of the qualified lending institution; (v) Past performance of loans and investments made by the qualified lending institution including, where applicable, past performance of loans and investments made using funds from the equitable access to credit program; and (vi) Awards to a diversity of qualified lending institution awardees, including institutions of different sizes or with different target markets or products, access to historically underserved communities, or other differentiators that ensure a broad-base access to capital. (b) The department may also include such additional criteria as it deems helpful in achieving the goal of ensuring access to credit to underserved communities across the state. (6) Grants may be awarded from the equitable access to credit program beginning six months after the first tax credits are claimed pursuant to RCW 82.04.4499 . Grant awards must cease from the equitable access to credit program upon the expiration of this chapter. (7) No loan or investment made by a qualified lending institution using funds awarded from the equitable access to credit program may have an interest rate that exceeds 200 basis points above the Wall Street Journal prime rate when the loan or investment is made. (8) Once a loan or investment made by a qualified lending institution using funds awarded from the equitable access to credit program has been repaid, the qualified lending institution must reloan the repaid funds consistent with the terms of this chapter. (9) A qualified lending institution that receives funds from the equitable access to credit program must submit a report to the department of commerce by June 30th of each year that contains the following information: (a) A list of loans and investments made using funds from the equitable access to credit program's grant and associated match, including, on a per-borrower or per-investee basis: (i) The date the loan or investment was originated; (ii) The amount of the loan or investment; (iii) The total cost of the project, including owner equity and leverage; (iv) The interest rate and interest type; (v) The Wall Street Journal prime rate at the time the loan or investment is made; (vi) The term; (vii) The number of permanent full-time equivalent jobs projected to be created in the business due to this financing; (viii) Whether the loan or investment utilized a guarantee program; (ix) The North American industry classification system code; (x) The entity structure; (xi) Whether the investee or borrower is more than 50 percent owned or controlled by: (A) One or more minorities; (B) One or more women; or (C) One or more low-income persons; (xii) The race of the primary investee(s) or borrower(s); (xiii) Whether the primary investee or borrower is Hispanic or Latino; and (xiv) The location, by city and county, in which funds from the program will be invested; (b) Certification that each loan or investment made using funds from the program was to a historically underserved community; and (c) Other information as required by the department of commerce. (10) No later than September 15th of each year, beginning in 2022, the department of commerce must submit a report to the appropriate committees of the legislature that contains the following information: (a) The list of grant applicants, total value of grants requested, and the location of each applicant; (b) The list of grant recipients, total amount of awards, and required match amounts; and (c) On an aggregate basis, information on loans and investments as reported under subsection (9) of this section. (11) The department may contract for all or part of the administration of this section. (12) The department may adopt rules as necessary to implement this section.
RCW 43.30.020 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 30 / Section 020
RCW 43.30.020: Definitions.
Status: in_force

The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Administrator" means the administrator of the department of natural resources. (2) "Agency" and "state agency" means any branch, department, or unit of the state government, however designated or constituted. (3) "Board" means the board of natural resources. (4) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of public lands. (5) "Department" means the department of natural resources. (6) "Supervisor" means the supervisor of natural resources.
RCW 43.19.669 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 19 / Section 669
RCW 43.19.669: Energy conservation—Purpose.
Status: in_force

It is the purpose of RCW 43.19.670 through 43.19.685 to require energy audits in state-owned buildings, to require energy audits as a lease condition in all new, renewed, and renegotiated leases of buildings by the state, to undertake such modifications and installations as are necessary to maximize the efficient use of energy in these buildings, including but not limited to energy management systems, and to establish a policy for the purchase of state vehicles, equipment, and materials which results in efficient energy use by the state. For a building that is leased by the state, energy audits and implementation of cost-effective energy conservation measures are required only for that portion of the building that is leased by the state when the state leases less than one hundred percent of the building. When implementing cost-effective energy conservation measures in buildings leased by the state, those measures must generate savings sufficient to finance the building modifications and installations over a loan period not greater than ten years and allow repayment during the term of the lease.
RCW 43.43.964 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 43 / Section 964
RCW 43.43.964: State fire service mobilization—Development of reimbursement procedures.
Status: in_force

The Washington state patrol in consultation with the office of financial management and the Washington military department shall develop procedures to facilitate reimbursement to state agencies and jurisdictions from appropriate federal and state funds when state agencies and jurisdictions are mobilized by the chief under the Washington state fire services mobilization plan. The Washington state patrol shall ensure that these procedures provide reimbursement to the host district in as timely a manner as possible.
RCW 43.56.900 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 56 / Section 900
RCW 43.56.900: Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married persons, and references to dissolution of marriage shall apply equally to state registered domestic partnerships that have been terminated, dissolved, or invalidated, to the extent that such interpretation does not conflict with federal law. Where necessary to implement chapter 521, Laws of 2009, gender-specific terms such as husband and wife used in any statute, rule, or other law shall be construed to be gender neutral, and applicable to individuals in state registered domestic partnerships.RCW 41.56.010 through 41.56.900 and 41.06.150 shall be known as the "Public Employees' Collective Bargaining Act" and shall take effect on July 1, 1967.
RCW 43.19A.120 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 19A / Section 120
RCW 43.19A.120: Use of compost products in projects.
Status: in_force

(1) When planning government-funded projects or soliciting and reviewing bids for such projects, all state agencies and local governments shall consider whether compost products can be utilized in the project. (2) If compost products can be utilized in the project, the state agency or local government must use compost products, except as follows: (a) A state agency or local government is not required to use compost products if: (i) Compost products are not available within a reasonable period of time; (ii) Compost products that are available do not comply with existing purchasing standards; (iii) Compost products that are available do not comply with federal or state health, quality, and safety standards; and (iv) Compost purchase prices are not reasonable or competitive; and (b) A state agency is also not required to use compost products in a project if: (i) The total cost of using compost is financially prohibitive; (ii) Application of compost will have detrimental impacts on the physical characteristics and nutrient condition of the soil as it is used for a specific crop; (iii) The project consists of growing trees in a greenhouse setting, including seed orchard greenhouses; or (iv) The compost products that are available have not been certified as being free of crop-specific pests and pathogens, including pests and pathogens that could result in the denial of phytosanitary permits for shipping seedlings. (3) Before the transportation or application of compost products under this section, composting facilities, state agencies, and local governments must ensure compliance with department of agriculture pest control regulations provided in chapter 16-470 WAC. (4) State agencies and local governments are encouraged to give priority to purchasing compost products from companies that produce compost products locally, are certified by a nationally recognized organization, and produce compost products that are derived from municipal solid waste compost programs and meet quality standards adopted by rule by the department of ecology.
RCW 43.185C.070 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 185C / Section 070
RCW 43.185C.070: Grant applications.
Status: in_force

(1) During each calendar year in which moneys from the home security fund account are available for use by the department for the homeless housing grant program, the department shall announce to all Washington counties, participating cities, and through major media throughout the state, a grant application period of at least ninety days' duration. This announcement will be made as often as the director deems appropriate for proper utilization of resources. The department shall then promptly grant as many applications as will utilize available funds, less appropriate administrative costs of the department as described in RCW 36.22.250 (4)(a). (2) The department will develop, with advice and input from the affordable housing advisory board established in RCW 43.185B.020 , criteria to evaluate grant applications. (3) The department may approve applications only if they are consistent with the local and state homeless housing program strategic plans. The department may give preference to applications based on some or all of the following criteria: (a) The total homeless population in the applicant local government service area, as reported by the most recent annual Washington homeless census; (b) Current local expenditures to provide housing for the homeless and to address the underlying causes of homelessness as described in RCW 43.185C.005 ; (c) Local government and private contributions pledged to the program in the form of matching funds, property, infrastructure improvements, and other contributions; and the degree of leveraging of other funds from local government or private sources for the program for which funds are being requested, to include recipient contributions to total project costs, including allied contributions from other sources such as professional, craft and trade services, and lender interest rate subsidies; (d) Construction projects or rehabilitation that will serve homeless individuals or families for a period of at least twenty-five years; (e) Projects which demonstrate serving homeless populations with the greatest needs, including projects that serve special needs populations; (f) The degree to which the applicant project represents a collaboration between local governments, nonprofit community-based organizations, local and state agencies, and the private sector, especially through its integration with the coordinated and comprehensive plan for homeless families with children required under RCW 43.63A.650 ; (g) The cooperation of the local government in the annual Washington homeless census project; (h) The commitment of the local government and any subcontracting local governments, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit entities to employ a diverse workforce; (i) The extent, if any, that the local homeless population is disproportionate to the revenues collected under this chapter and RCW 36.22.250 ; and (j) Other elements shown by the applicant to be directly related to the goal and the department's state strategic plan.
RCW 43.20A.685 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 20A / Section 685
RCW 43.20A.685: State council on aging—Membership—Terms—Vacancies—Chairperson—Secretary—Compensation of legislative members.
Status: in_force

(1) Members of the council shall be appointed to terms of three years, except in the case of a vacancy, in which event appointment shall be for the remainder of the unexpired term for which the vacancy occurs. No member of the council may serve more than two consecutive three-year terms. Each area agency on aging advisory council shall appoint one member from its state-designated planning and service area. The governor shall appoint one additional member from names submitted by the association of Washington cities and one additional member from names submitted by the Washington state association of counties. In addition, the governor may appoint not more than five at large members, in order to ensure that rural areas (those areas outside of a standard metropolitan statistical area), minority populations, and those individuals with special skills which could assist the state council are represented. The members of the state council on aging shall elect, at the council's initial meeting and at the council's first meeting each year, one member to serve as chairperson of the council and another member to serve as secretary of the council. (2) The speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate shall each appoint two nonvoting members to the council; one from each of the two largest caucuses in each house. The terms of the members so appointed shall be for approximately two years and the terms shall expire before the first day of the legislative session in odd-numbered years. They shall be compensated by their respective houses as provided under RCW 44.04.120 , as now or hereafter amended. (3) With the exception of the members from the Washington state association of cities, the Washington state association of counties, and the nonvoting legislative members, all members of the council shall be at least fifty-five years old.
RCW 43.113.005 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 113 / Section 005
RCW 43.113.005: Legislative declaration.
Status: in_force

The legislature declares that it is the public policy of this state to insure equal opportunity for all of its citizens. The legislature finds that, for economic, social, and historical reasons, a disproportionate number of African Americans find themselves disadvantaged or isolated from the benefits of equal opportunity. The legislature believes that it is the duty of this state to improve the well-being of African Americans by enabling them to participate fully in all fields of endeavor and by assisting them in obtaining governmental services. The legislature further finds that the development of public policy and the delivery of governmental services to meet the special needs of African Americans can be improved by establishing a focal point in state government for the interests of African American citizens. Therefore, the legislature deems it necessary to establish in statute the commission on African American affairs to further these purposes.
RCW 43.21C.040 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21C / Section 040
RCW 43.21C.040: Examination of laws, regulations, policies by state agencies and local authorities—Report of deficiencies and corrective measures.
Status: in_force

All branches of government of this state, including state agencies, municipal and public corporations, and counties shall review their present statutory authority, administrative regulations, and current policies and procedures for the purpose of determining whether there are any deficiencies or inconsistencies therein which prohibit full compliance with the purposes and provisions of this chapter and shall propose to the governor not later than January 1, 1972, such measures as may be necessary to bring their authority and policies in conformity with the intent, purposes, and procedures set forth in this chapter.
RCW 43.216.021 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 216 / Section 021
RCW 43.216.021: Opioid overdose reversal medication and training.
Status: in_force

The department shall provide opioid overdose reversal medication and training in the use of such medication to all department staff whose job duties require in-person service or case management for child welfare or juvenile rehabilitation clients.
RCW 43.147.010 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 147 / Section 010
RCW 43.147.010: Terms of agreement.
Status: in_force

The Pacific Northwest Economic Region is hereby enacted into law and entered into by the state of Washington as a party, and is in full force and effect in accordance with the terms of this agreement. THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST ECONOMIC REGION ARTICLE I — Policy and Purpose States and provinces participating in the Pacific Northwest Economic Region shall seek to develop and establish policies that: Promote greater regional collaboration among the seven entities; enhance the overall competitiveness of the region in international and domestic markets; increase the economic well-being of all citizens in the region; and improve the quality of life of the citizens of the Pacific Northwest. States and provinces recognize that there are many public policy areas in which cooperation and joint efforts would be mutually beneficial. These areas include, but are not limited to: International trade; economic development; human resources; the environment and natural resources; energy; and education. Parties to this agreement shall work diligently to establish collaborative activity in these and other appropriate policy areas where such cooperation is deemed worthwhile and of benefit to the participating entities. Participating states and provinces also agree that there are areas in which cooperation may not be feasible. The substantive actions of the Pacific Northwest Economic Region may take the form of uniform legislation enacted by two or more states and/or provinces or policy initiatives endorsed as appropriate by participating entities. It shall not be necessary for all states and provinces to participate in each initiative. ARTICLE II — Eligible Parties and Effective Date Each of the following states and provinces is eligible to become a party to this agreement: Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. This agreement establishing the Pacific Northwest Economic Region shall become effective when it is executed by one state, one province, and one additional state and/or province in a form deemed appropriate by each entity. This agreement shall continue in force and remain binding upon each state and province until renounced by it. Renunciation of this agreement must be preceded by sending one year's notice in writing of intention to withdraw from the agreement to the other parties to the agreement. ARTICLE III — Organizational Structure Each state and province participating in this agreement shall appoint representatives to the Pacific Northwest Economic Region. The organizational structure of the Pacific Northwest Economic Region shall consist of the following: A delegate council consisting of four legislators and the governor or governor's designee from each participating state and four representatives and the premier or the premier's designee from each participating province and an executive committee consisting of one legislator from each participating state and/or province who is a member of the delegate council and four of the seven governors/premiers or their designees who are members of the delegate council. The legislator members of the executive committee from each state or province shall be chosen by the legislator members of that state or province. The four governor or premier members of the executive committee shall be chosen by the governors and premiers from among the governors and premiers on the delegate council. At least one of four members representing the governors and premiers on the executive committee must be the premier of a Canadian province. Policy committees may be established to carry out further duties and responsibilities of the Pacific Northwest Economic Region. ARTICLE IV — Duties and Responsibilities The delegate council shall have the following duties and responsibilities: Facilitate the involvement of other government officials in the development and implementation of specific collaborative initiatives; work with policy-making committees in the development and implementation of specific initiatives; approve general organizational policies developed by the executive committee; provide final approval of the annual budget and staffing structure for the Pacific Northwest Economic Region developed by the executive committee; and other duties and responsibilities as may be established in the rules and regulations of the Pacific Northwest Economic Region. The executive committee shall perform the following duties and responsibilities: Elect the president and vice president of the Pacific Northwest Economic Region; approve and implement general organizational policies; develop the annual budget; devise the annual action plan; act as liaison with other public and private sector entities; review the availability of, and if appropriate apply for, (1) tax exempt status under the laws and regulations of the United States or any state or subdivision thereof and (2) similar status under the laws and regulations of Canada or any province or subdivision thereof, and approve such rules, regulations, organizational policies, and staffing structure for the Pacific Northwest Economic Region and take such further actions on behalf of the Pacific Northwest Economic Region as may be deemed by the executive committee to be necessary or appropriate to qualify for and maintain such tax exempt or similar status under the applicable laws or regulations; and other duties and responsibilities established in the rules and regulations of the Pacific Northwest Economic Region. The rules and regulations of the Pacific Northwest Economic Region shall establish the procedure for voting. ARTICLE V — Membership of Policy Committees Policy committees dealing with specific subject matter may be established by the executive committee. Each participating state and province shall appoint legislators and governors or premiers to sit on these committees in accordance with its own rules and regulations concerning such appointments. ARTICLE VI — General Provisions This agreement shall not be construed to limit the powers of any state or province or to amend or repeal or prevent the enactment of any legislation.
RCW 43.131.427 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 131 / Section 427
RCW 43.131.427: Washington dual enrollment scholarship pilot program—Termination.
Status: in_force

The Washington dual enrollment scholarship pilot program is terminated July 1, 2025, as provided in RCW 43.131.428 .
RCW 43.23.050 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 23 / Section 050
RCW 43.23.050: Powers and duties.
Status: in_force

The director of agriculture shall: (1) Exercise all the powers and perform all the duties prescribed by law relating to horticulture, and horticultural plants and products; (2) Enforce and supervise the administration of all laws relating to horticulture, horticultural products, and horticultural interests.
RCW 43.20A.885 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 20A / Section 885
RCW 43.20A.885: Dementia action collaborative.
Status: in_force

(1) The dementia action collaborative is established with members as provided in this subsection. (a) The governor shall appoint the following members, and may appoint additional members at the governor's discretion: (i) A representative of the governor's office; (ii) A representative and an alternate from the department in the aging and long-term support administration; (iii) A representative and an alternate from the department in the developmental disabilities administration; (iv) A representative and an alternate from the department of health; (v) A representative and an alternate from the health care authority; (vi) A representative and an alternate from the office of the state long-term care ombuds; (vii) At least one person with Alzheimer's disease or another dementia; (viii) A caregiver of a person with Alzheimer's disease or another dementia; (ix) A representative of the University of Washington's memory and brain wellness center; (x) A representative of an organization representing area agencies on aging; (xi) A representative of an association representing long-term care facilities in Washington; (xii) A representative of an association representing physicians in Washington; (xiii) A representative of a Washington-based organization of volunteers, family, and friends of those affected by Alzheimer's disease and other dementias; (xiv) A representative of an Alzheimer's advocacy organization; (xv) An attorney who specializes in elder law; (xvi) An Alzheimer's disease researcher; (xvii) A representative of an organization representing emergency medical service providers in Washington; (xviii) An expert in workforce development; (xix) A representative of the Washington state council on aging; (xx) A representative of the governor's office of Indian affairs; (xxi) A licensed behavioral health provider with clinical expertise in Alzheimer's disease or other dementias; (xxii) A representative of a health care organization that primarily serves people of color, including seniors; and (xxiii) A nurse with expertise in serving individuals with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias. (b) In appointing members to the dementia action collaborative, the governor shall give priority to persons who had previously served on the Alzheimer's disease working group established pursuant to chapter 89 (Senate Bill No. 6124), Laws of 2014, and its successor work groups. (2)(a) The secretary or the secretary's designee shall convene the dementia action collaborative and submit all required reports. The secretary or the secretary's designee shall serve as the cochair with either the member representing an Alzheimer's disease advocacy organization or the member representing the Washington-based organization of volunteers, family, and friends of those affected by Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. (b) The department shall provide any necessary administrative support to the dementia action collaborative. (c) Meetings of the dementia action collaborative must be open to the public. At least one meeting each year must accept comments on the dementia action collaborative's proposed recommendations from members of the public, including comments from persons and families affected by Alzheimer's disease or other dementias. The department must use technological means, such as web casts, to assure public participation. (3)(a) The dementia action collaborative must assess the current and future impacts of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias on Washington residents, including: (i) Examining progress in implementing the Washington state Alzheimer's plan adopted in 2016; (ii) Assessing available services and resources for serving persons with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, as well as their families and caregivers; (iii) Examining and developing strategies to rectify disparate effects of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias on people of color; and (iv) Developing a strategy to mobilize a state response to this public health crisis. (b) In addition to the activities in (a) of this subsection, the dementia action collaborative must review and revise the Washington state Alzheimer's plan adopted in 2016, and any subsequent revisions to that plan. Revisions to the plan must evaluate and address: (i) Population trends related to Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, including: (A) Demographic information related to Washington residents living with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias, including average age, average age at first diagnosis, gender, race, and comorbidities; and (B) Disparities in the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias between different racial and ethnic populations; (ii) Existing services, resources, and health care system capacity, including: (A) The types, cost, and availability of dementia services, medicaid reimbursement rates for dementia services, and the effect of medicaid reimbursement rates on the availability of dementia services; (B) Dementia-specific training requirements for long-term services and supports staff; (C) The needs of public safety and law enforcement to respond to persons with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias; (D) The availability of home and community-based resources, including respite care and other services to assist families, for persons with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias; (E) Availability of long-term dementia care beds, regardless of payer; (F) State funding and Alzheimer's disease research through Washington universities and other resources; and (G) Advances in knowledge regarding brain health, dementia, and risk reduction related to Alzheimer's disease and other dementias since the adoption of the Washington state Alzheimer's plan established in 2016. (4) The department must submit a report of the dementia action collaborative's findings and recommendations to the governor and the legislature in the form of an updated Washington state Alzheimer's plan no later than October 1, 2023. The department must submit annual updates and recommendations of the dementia action collaborative for legislative and executive branch agency action to the governor and the legislature each October 1st, beginning October 1, 2024. (5) This section expires June 30, 2028.
RCW 43.70.510 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 70 / Section 510
RCW 43.70.510: Health care services coordinated quality improvement program—Rules.
Status: in_force

(1)(a) Health care institutions and medical facilities, other than hospitals, that are licensed by the department, professional societies or organizations, health care service contractors, health maintenance organizations, health carriers approved pursuant to chapter 48.43 RCW, and any other person or entity providing health care coverage under chapter 48.42 RCW that is subject to the jurisdiction and regulation of any state agency or any subdivision thereof may maintain a coordinated quality improvement program for the improvement of the quality of health care services rendered to patients and the identification and prevention of medical malpractice as set forth in RCW 70.41.200 . (b) All such programs shall comply with the requirements of RCW 70.41.200 (1) (a), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), and (h) as modified to reflect the structural organization of the institution, facility, professional societies or organizations, health care service contractors, health maintenance organizations, health carriers, or any other person or entity providing health care coverage under chapter 48.42 RCW that is subject to the jurisdiction and regulation of any state agency or any subdivision thereof, unless an alternative quality improvement program substantially equivalent to RCW 70.41.200 (1)(a) is developed. All such programs, whether complying with the requirement set forth in RCW 70.41.200 (1)(a) or in the form of an alternative program, must be approved by the department before the discovery limitations provided in subsections (3) and (4) of this section and the exemption under RCW 42.56.360 (1)(c) and subsection (5) of this section shall apply. In reviewing plans submitted by licensed entities that are associated with physicians' offices, the department shall ensure that the exemption under RCW 42.56.360 (1)(c) and the discovery limitations of this section are applied only to information and documents related specifically to quality improvement activities undertaken by the licensed entity. (2) Health care provider groups of five or more providers may maintain a coordinated quality improvement program for the improvement of the quality of health care services rendered to patients and the identification and prevention of medical malpractice as set forth in RCW 70.41.200 . For purposes of this section, a health care provider group may be a consortium of providers consisting of five or more providers in total. All such programs shall comply with the requirements of RCW 70.41.200 (1) (a), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), and (h) as modified to reflect the structural organization of the health care provider group. All such programs must be approved by the department before the discovery limitations provided in subsections (3) and (4) of this section and the exemption under RCW 42.56.360 (1)(c) and subsection (5) of this section shall apply. (3) Any person who, in substantial good faith, provides information to further the purposes of the quality improvement and medical malpractice prevention program or who, in substantial good faith, participates on the quality improvement committee shall not be subject to an action for civil damages or other relief as a result of such activity. Any person or entity participating in a coordinated quality improvement program that, in substantial good faith, shares information or documents with one or more other programs, committees, or boards under subsection (6) of this section is not subject to an action for civil damages or other relief as a result of the activity or its consequences. For the purposes of this section, sharing information is presumed to be in substantial good faith. However, the presumption may be rebutted upon a showing of clear, cogent, and convincing evidence that the information shared was knowingly false or deliberately misleading. (4) Information and documents, including complaints and incident reports, created specifically for, and collected and maintained by, a quality improvement committee are not subject to review or disclosure, except as provided in this section, or discovery or introduction into evidence in any civil action, and no person who was in attendance at a meeting of such committee or who participated in the creation, collection, or maintenance of information or documents specifically for the committee shall be permitted or required to testify in any civil action as to the content of such proceedings or the documents and information prepared specifically for the committee. This subsection does not preclude: (a) In any civil action, the discovery of the identity of persons involved in the medical care that is the basis of the civil action whose involvement was independent of any quality improvement activity; (b) in any civil action, the testimony of any person concerning the facts that form the basis for the institution of such proceedings of which the person had personal knowledge acquired independently of such proceedings; (c) in any civil action by a health care provider regarding the restriction or revocation of that individual's clinical or staff privileges, introduction into evidence information collected and maintained by quality improvement committees regarding such health care provider; (d) in any civil action challenging the termination of a contract by a state agency with any entity maintaining a coordinated quality improvement program under this section if the termination was on the basis of quality of care concerns, introduction into evidence of information created, collected, or maintained by the quality improvement committees of the subject entity, which may be under terms of a protective order as specified by the court; (e) in any civil action, disclosure of the fact that staff privileges were terminated or restricted, including the specific restrictions imposed, if any and the reasons for the restrictions; or (f) in any civil action, discovery and introduction into evidence of the patient's medical records required by rule of the department of health to be made regarding the care and treatment received. (5) Information and documents created specifically for, and collected and maintained by, a quality improvement committee are exempt from disclosure under chapter 42.56 RCW. (6) A coordinated quality improvement program may share information and documents, including complaints and incident reports, created specifically for, and collected and maintained by, a quality improvement committee or a peer review committee under RCW 4.24.250 with one or more other coordinated quality improvement programs maintained in accordance with this section or with RCW 70.41.200 , a coordinated quality improvement committee maintained by an ambulatory surgical facility under RCW 70.230.070 , a quality assurance committee maintained in accordance with RCW 18.20.390 or 74.42.640 , or a peer review committee under RCW 4.24.250 , for the improvement of the quality of health care services rendered to patients and the identification and prevention of medical malpractice. The privacy protections of chapter 70.02 RCW and the federal health insurance portability and accountability act of 1996 and its implementing regulations apply to the sharing of individually identifiable patient information held by a coordinated quality improvement program. Any rules necessary to implement this section shall meet the requirements of applicable federal and state privacy laws. Information and documents disclosed by one coordinated quality improvement program to another coordinated quality improvement program or a peer review committee under RCW 4.24.250 and any information and documents created or maintained as a result of the sharing of information and documents shall not be subject to the discovery process and confidentiality shall be respected as required by subsection (4) of this section and RCW 4.24.250 . (7) The department of health shall adopt rules as are necessary to implement this section.
RCW 43.52.3411 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 52 / Section 3411
RCW 43.52.3411: Revenue bonds or warrants.
Status: in_force

For the purposes provided for in this chapter, an operating agency shall have power to issue revenue bonds or warrants payable from the revenues of the utility properties operated by it. Whenever the board of a joint operating agency shall deem it advisable to issue bonds or warrants to engage in conservation activities or to construct or acquire any public utility or any works, plants or facilities or any additions or betterments thereto or extensions thereof it shall provide therefor by resolution, which shall specify and adopt the system or plan proposed and declare the estimated cost thereof as near as may be. Such cost may include funds for working capital, for payment of expenses incurred in the conservation activities or the acquisition or construction of the utility and for the repayment of advances made to the operating agency by any public utility district or city. Except as otherwise provided in RCW 43.52.343 , all the provisions of law as now or hereafter in effect relating to revenue bonds or warrants of public utility districts shall apply to revenue bonds or warrants issued by the joint operating agency including, without limitation, provisions relating to: The creation of special funds and the pledging of revenues thereto; the time and place of payment of such bonds or warrants and the interest rate or rates thereon; the covenants that may be contained therein and the effect thereof; the execution, issuance, sale, funding, or refunding, redemption and registration of such bonds or warrants; and the status thereof as negotiable instruments, as legal securities for deposits of public moneys and as legal investments for trustees and other fiduciaries and for savings and loan associations, banks and insurance companies doing business in this state. However, for revenue bonds or warrants issued by an operating agency, the provisions under RCW 54.24.030 relating to additional or alternate methods for payment may be made a part of the contract with the owners of any revenue bonds or warrants of an operating agency. The board may authorize the managing director or the treasurer of the operating agency to sell revenue bonds or warrants maturing one year or less from the date of issuance, and to fix the interest rate or rates on such revenue bonds or warrants with such restrictions as the board shall prescribe. Such bonds and warrants may be in any form, including bearer bonds or bearer warrants, or registered bonds or registered warrants as provided in RCW 39.46.030 . Such bonds and warrants may also be issued and sold in accordance with chapter 39.46 RCW.
RCW 43.20A.040 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 20A / Section 040
RCW 43.20A.040: Secretary of social and health services—Appointment—Term—Salary—Temporary appointment if vacancy—As executive head and appointing authority.
Status: in_force

The executive head and appointing authority of the department shall be the secretary of social and health services. He or she shall be appointed by the governor with the consent of the senate, and shall serve at the pleasure of the governor. He or she shall be paid a salary to be fixed by the governor in accordance with the provisions of RCW 43.03.040 . If a vacancy occurs in his or her position while the senate is not in session, the governor shall make a temporary appointment until the next meeting of the senate, when he or she shall present to that body his or her nomination for the office.
RCW 43.83B.410 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 83B / Section 410
RCW 43.83B.410: Drought emergencies—Withdrawals and diversions—Agreements.
Status: reserved

Upon the issuance of an order of drought emergency under RCW 43.83B.405 (2), the department may: (1)(a) Authorize emergency withdrawal of public surface and ground waters, including dead storage within reservoirs, on a temporary basis and authorize temporary or permanent associated physical works. The department shall prioritize the approval of emergency withdrawal authorizations in order to address those most affected by the water deficit to ensure the survival of irrigated crops, the state's fisheries, and the provision of water for small communities. (b) The termination date for emergency withdrawals may not be later than the termination date of the order issued under RCW 43.83B.405 (2). (c) The department may issue emergency withdrawal authorizations only when, after investigation and after providing appropriate federal, state, and local governmental bodies and affected federally recognized tribes an opportunity to comment, the following are found: (i) The waters proposed for withdrawal are to be used for a beneficial use involving a previously established activity or purpose; (ii) The previously established activity or purpose was furnished water through rights applicable to the use of a public body of water that cannot be exercised due to the lack of water arising from natural drought conditions; and (iii) The proposed withdrawal will not reduce flows or levels below essential minimums necessary to ensure the maintenance of fisheries requirements and to protect federal and state interests including, among others, power generation, navigation, and existing water rights. (d) All emergency withdrawal authorizations issued under this section shall contain provisions that allow for termination of withdrawals, in whole or in part, whenever withdrawals will conflict with flows and levels as provided in (c)(iii) of this subsection. (e) As to water withdrawal and associated works authorized under this subsection, the requirements of chapter 43.21C RCW and public bidding requirements as otherwise provided by law are waived and inapplicable. All state and local agencies with authority to issue permits or other authorizations for such works shall, to the extent possible, expedite the processing of the permits or authorizations in keeping with the emergency nature of the requests and shall provide a decision to the applicant within fifteen calendar days of the date of application. All state departments or other agencies having jurisdiction over state or other public lands, if such lands are necessary to effectuate the withdrawal authorizations issued under this subsection, shall provide short-term easements or other appropriate property interest upon the payment of the fair market value. This mandate shall not apply to any lands of the state that are reserved for a special purpose or use that cannot properly be carried out if the property interest were conveyed; (2) Approve a temporary change in purpose, place of use, point of diversion, or point of withdrawal, consistent with existing state policy allowing transfer or lease of waters between willing parties, as provided for in RCW 90.03.380 , 90.03.390 , and 90.44.100 . However, compliance with any requirements of notice of newspaper publication of these sections or the state environmental policy act under chapter 43.21C RCW, is not required when such changes are necessary to respond to drought conditions as determined by the department. An approval of a temporary change of a water right as authorized under this subsection is not admissible as evidence in either supporting or contesting the validity of water claims in a general adjudication under RCW 90.03.210 or any similar proceeding where the existence of a water right is at issue; (3) Employ additional persons for specified terms of time, consistent with the term of a drought condition, as are necessary to ensure the successful performance of the activities associated with implementing the emergency drought program of this chapter; (4) Acquire needed emergency drought-related equipment; (5) Enter into agreements with applicants receiving emergency withdrawal authorizations established under this section to recover the costs, or a portion thereof, of mitigation for emergency withdrawal authorizations, provided that mitigation is done to protect instream flows, federally regulated flows, or senior water rights. The department may establish the specifics of cost recovery by rule, based on the amount of water used in the emergency withdrawal, which shall not exceed the cost of mitigation; and (6) Enter into interagency agreements as authorized under chapter 39.34 RCW to partner in emergency drought response.
RCW 43.88.055 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 88 / Section 055
RCW 43.88.055: Legislative balanced budget requirement.
Status: in_force

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(1) The legislature must adopt a four-year balanced budget as follows: (a) Beginning in the 2013-2015 fiscal biennium, the legislature shall enact a balanced omnibus operating appropriations bill that leaves, in total, a positive ending fund balance in the general fund and related funds. (b) Beginning in the 2013-2015 fiscal biennium, the projected maintenance level of the omnibus appropriations bill enacted by the legislature shall not exceed the available fiscal resources for the next ensuing fiscal biennium. (2) For purposes of this section: (a) "Available fiscal resources" means the beginning general fund and related fund balances and any fiscal resources estimated for the general fund and related funds, adjusted for enacted legislation, and with forecasted revenues adjusted to the greater of (i) the official general fund and related funds revenue forecast for the ensuing biennium, or (ii) the official general fund and related funds forecast for the second fiscal year of the current fiscal biennium, increased by 4.5 percent for each fiscal year of the ensuing biennium; (b) "Projected maintenance level" means estimated appropriations necessary to maintain the continuing costs of program and service levels either funded in that appropriations bill or mandated by other state or federal law, and the amount of any general fund moneys projected to be transferred to the budget stabilization account pursuant to Article VII, section 12 of the state Constitution; (c) "Related funds," as used in this section, means the Washington opportunity pathways account, the workforce education investment account, the fair start for kids account, and the education legacy trust account. (3) Subsection (1)(a) and (b) of this section does not apply to an appropriations bill that makes net reductions in general fund and related funds appropriations and is enacted between July 1st and February 15th of any fiscal year. (4) Subsection (1)(b) of this section does not apply in a fiscal biennium in which money is appropriated from the budget stabilization account pursuant to Article VII, section 12(d)(ii) of the state Constitution.
RCW 43.133.900 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 133 / Section 900
RCW 43.133.900: Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be known as the Washington sunrise act.
RCW 43.362.030 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 362 / Section 030
RCW 43.362.030: Program established in central Puget Sound.
Status: in_force

(1) Subject to the availability of funds appropriated for this specific purpose or another source of funding made available for this specific purpose, the department shall establish a regional transfer of development rights program in central Puget Sound, including King, Kitsap, Snohomish, and Pierce counties and the cities and towns within these counties. The program must be guided by the Puget Sound regional council's multicounty planning policies adopted under RCW 36.70A.210 (7). (2) The purpose of the program is to foster voluntary county, city, and town participation in the program so that interjurisdictional transfers occur between the counties, cities, and towns, including transfers from counties to cities and towns in other counties. Private transactions between buyers and sellers of transferable development rights are allowed and encouraged under this program. In fulfilling the requirements of this chapter, the department shall work with the Puget Sound regional council to implement a regional program. (3) The department shall encourage participation by the cities, towns, and counties in the regional program. The regional program shall not be implemented in a manner that negatively impacts existing local programs. The department shall encourage and work to enhance the efforts in any of these counties, cities, or towns to develop local transfer of development rights programs or enhance existing programs. (4) Subject to the availability of funds appropriated for this specific purpose or another source of funding made available for this specific purpose, the department shall do the following to implement a regional transfer of development rights program in central Puget Sound: (a) Serve as the central coordinator for state government in the implementation of RCW 43.362.030 through 43.362.070 . (b) Offer technical assistance to cities, towns, and counties planning for participation in the regional transfer of development rights program. The department's technical assistance shall: (i) Include written guidance for local development and implementation of the regional transfer of development rights program; (ii) Include guidance for and encourage permitting or environmental review incentives for developers to participate. Activities may include, but are not limited to, provision for by-right permitting, substantial environmental review of a subarea plan for the receiving area that includes the use of transferable development rights, adoption of a categorical exemption for infill under RCW 43.21C.229 for a receiving area, or adoption of a planned action under RCW 43.21C.240 ; (iii) Provide guidance to counties, cities, and towns to negotiate receiving area ratios and foster private transactions; (iv) Provide guidance and encourage planning for receiving areas that do not compete or conflict with comprehensive plan policies and development regulations that require or encourage affordable housing; and (v) Provide guidance and encourage planning for receiving areas that maximizes opportunities for economic development through the creation or retention of jobs. (c) Work with counties, cities, and towns to inform elected officials, planning commissions, and the public regarding the regional transfer of development rights program. The information provided by the department shall discuss the importance of preserving farmland and farming, and forestland and forestry, to cities and towns and the local economy. (d) Based on information provided by the counties, cities, and towns, post on a website information regarding transfer of development rights transactions and a list of interested buyers and sellers of transferable development rights. (e) Coordinate with and provide resources to state and local agencies and stakeholders to provide public outreach.
RCW 43.21F.060 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21F / Section 060
RCW 43.21F.060: Additional duties and authority of department—Obtaining information—Confidentiality, penalty—Receiving and expending funds.
Status: in_force

In addition to the duties prescribed in RCW 43.21F.045 , the department shall have the authority to: (1) Obtain all necessary and existing information from energy producers, suppliers, and consumers, doing business within the state of Washington, from political subdivisions in this state, or any person as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of chapter 43.21G RCW: PROVIDED, That if the information is available in reports made to another state agency, the department shall obtain it from that agency: PROVIDED FURTHER, That, to the maximum extent practicable, informational requests to energy companies regulated by the utilities and transportation commission shall be channeled through the commission and shall be accepted in the format normally used by the companies. Such information may include but not be limited to: (a) Sales volume; (b) Forecasts of energy requirements; and (c) Energy costs. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, information furnished under this subsection shall be confidential and maintained as such, if so requested by the person providing the information, if the information is proprietary. It shall be unlawful to disclose such information except as hereinafter provided. A violation shall be punishable, upon conviction, by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars for each offense. In addition, any person who wilfully or with criminal negligence, as defined in RCW 9A.08.010 , discloses confidential information in violation of this subsection may be subject to removal from office or immediate dismissal from public employment notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary. Nothing in this subsection prohibits the use of confidential information to prepare statistics or other general data for publication when it is so presented as to prevent identification of particular persons or sources of confidential information. (2) Receive and expend funds obtained from the federal government or other sources by means of contracts, grants, awards, payments for services, and other devices in support of the duties enumerated in this chapter.
RCW 43.63A.645 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 63A / Section 645
RCW 43.63A.645: Emergency housing programs—Rules.
Status: in_force

The department shall, by rule, establish program standards, eligibility standards, eligibility criteria, and administrative rules for emergency housing programs and specify other benefits that may arise in consultation with providers.
RCW 43.330.765 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 330 / Section 765
RCW 43.330.765: Manufacturing—Regional strategies—Grants.
Status: in_force

(1) The department must support the development of regionally tailored strategies to facilitate the continued existence and development of [a] manufacturing workforce across the state. (2) To support regional manufacturing cluster development and job creation, the department must grant any funding provided in RCW 43.330.767 for initiatives that accelerate the development of regional clusters intended to grow living wage jobs in manufacturing and research and development. (3) The department is encouraged to consider the creation of regional offices or establishing additional duty stations that facilitate sector leads to be located in the regions most dependent on their sector.
RCW 43.24.115 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 24 / Section 115
RCW 43.24.115: Director's duties as to refusal, revocation or suspension of licenses—Performance by assistants.
Status: in_force

The director may deputize one or more of his or her assistants to perform his or her duties with reference to refusal, revocation or suspension of licenses, including the power to preside at hearings and to render decisions therein subject to the approval of the director.
RCW 43.52.910 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 52 / Section 910
RCW 43.52.910: Construction—1965 c 8.
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes.
RCW 43.180.260 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 180 / Section 260
RCW 43.180.260: Sustainable energy trust program.
Status: in_force

(1) If economically feasible, the commission shall develop and implement a sustainable energy trust program to provide financing for qualified improvement projects. In developing the sustainable energy trust program, the commission shall establish eligibility criteria for financing that will enable it to choose eligible applicants who are likely to repay loans made or acquired by the commission and funded from the proceeds of commission bonds. (2) The commission shall, if economically feasible: (a) Issue bonds, as defined in RCW 43.180.020 , for the purpose of financing loans for qualified energy efficiency and renewable energy improvement projects in accordance with RCW 43.180.150 ; (b) Participate fully in federal and other governmental programs and take actions that are necessary and consistent with this chapter to secure to itself and the people of the state the benefits of programs to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies; (c) Contract with a certifying authority to accept applications for energy efficiency and renewable energy improvement projects, to review applications, including binding fixed price bids for the improvements, and to approve qualified improvements for financing by the commission. For solar electric systems, the certifying authority must use an application certification process similar to the investment cost recovery incentive application process provided under RCW 82.16.120 . No work by a certifying authority may commence under this section until a request has been made by the commission; and (d) Before entering into a contract with a certifying authority as defined in RCW 43.180.020 (2)(b), consult with the Washington State University energy extension [extension energy] program to determine which potential improvement technologies are appropriate. (3) No general fund resources may be expended to implement this section.
RCW 43.30.800 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 30 / Section 800
RCW 43.30.800: Olympic natural resources center—Finding, intent.
Status: in_force

The legislature finds that conflicts over the use of natural resources essential to the state's residents, especially forest and ocean resources, have increased dramatically. There are growing demands that these resources be fully utilized for their commodity values, while simultaneously there are increased demands for protection and preservation of these same resources. While these competing demands are most often viewed as mutually exclusive, recent research has suggested that commodity production and ecological values can be integrated. It is the intent of the legislature to foster and support the research and education necessary to provide sound scientific information on which to base sustainable forest and marine industries, and at the same time sustain the ecological values demanded by much of the public.
RCW 43.99W.030 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 99W / Section 030
RCW 43.99W.030: Retirement of bonds—Reimbursement of general fund from debt-limit general fund bond retirement account.
Status: in_force

(1) The debt-limit general fund bond retirement account shall be used for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds authorized in RCW 43.99W.020 (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), and (6). (2) The state finance committee shall, on or before June 30th of each year, certify to the state treasurer the amount needed in the ensuing twelve months to meet the bond retirement and interest requirements on the bonds authorized in RCW 43.99W.020 (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), and (6). (3) On each date on which any interest or principal and interest payment is due on bonds issued for the purposes of RCW 43.99W.020 (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), and (6) the state treasurer shall withdraw from any general state revenues received in the state treasury and deposit in the debt-limit general fund bond retirement account an amount equal to the amount certified by the state finance committee to be due on the payment date.
RCW 43.102.090 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 102 / Section 090
RCW 43.102.090: Criminal justice training commission—Collaboration—Trainings.
Status: in_force

(1) The criminal justice training commission shall collaborate with the office to ensure office investigators receive sufficient training to attain the necessary requirements to conduct investigations under the jurisdiction of the office. (2) The investigators of the office shall receive priority registration to criminal justice training commission trainings necessary to conduct investigations as required by this chapter.
RCW 43.88.110 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 88 / Section 110
RCW 43.88.110: Expenditure programs—Allotments—Reserves—Monitor capital appropriations—Predesign review for major capital construction.
Status: in_force

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This section sets forth the expenditure programs and the allotment and reserve procedures to be followed by the executive branch for public funds. (1) Allotments of an appropriation for any fiscal period shall conform to the terms, limits, or conditions of the appropriation. (2) The director of financial management shall provide all agencies with a complete set of operating and capital instructions for preparing a statement of proposed expenditures at least thirty days before the beginning of a fiscal period. The set of instructions need not include specific appropriation amounts for the agency. (3) Within forty-five days after the beginning of the fiscal period or within forty-five days after the governor signs the omnibus biennial appropriations act, whichever is later, all agencies shall submit to the governor a statement of proposed expenditures at such times and in such form as may be required by the governor. (4) The office of financial management shall develop a method for monitoring capital appropriations and expenditures that will capture at least the following elements: (a) Appropriations made for capital projects including transportation projects; (b) Estimates of total project costs including past, current, ensuing, and future biennial costs; (c) Comparisons of actual costs to estimated costs; (d) Comparisons of estimated construction start and completion dates with actual dates; (e) Documentation of fund shifts between projects. This data may be incorporated into the existing accounting system or into a separate project management system, as deemed appropriate by the office of financial management. (5) Except as provided for under subsection (6) of this section, the office of financial management, prior to approving allotments for major capital construction projects valued over ten million dollars, shall institute procedures for reviewing such projects at the predesign stage that will reduce long-term costs and increase facility efficiency. The procedures shall include, but not be limited to, the following elements: (a) Evaluation of facility program requirements and consistency with long-range plans; (b) Utilization of a system of cost, quality, and performance standards to compare major capital construction projects; and (c) A requirement to incorporate value-engineering analysis and constructability review into the project schedule. (6) The office of financial management may make an exception to some or all of the predesign requirements in subsection (5) of this section. The office of financial management shall report any exception to the fiscal committees of the legislature and include: (a) A description of the major capital project for which the predesign waiver is made; (b) an explanation of the reason for the waiver; and (c) a rough order of magnitude cost estimate for the project's design and construction. (7) In deliberations related to submitting an exception under subsection (6) of this section, the office of financial management shall consider the following factors: (a) Whether there is any determination to be made regarding the site of the project; (b) Whether there is any determination to be made regarding whether the project will involve renovation, new construction, or both; (c) Whether, within six years of submitting the request for funding, the agency has completed, or initiated the construction of, a substantially similar project; (d) Whether there is any anticipated change to the project's program or the services to be delivered at the facility; (e) Whether the requesting agency indicates that the project may not require some or all of the requirements in subsection (5) of this section due to a lack of complexity; and (f) Whether any other factors related to project complexity or risk, as determined by the office of financial management, could reduce the need for, or scope of, a predesign. (8) If under subsection (6) of this section, some or all of the predesign requirements under subsection (5) of this section are waived, the office of financial management may instead propose a professional project cost estimate instead of a request for predesign funding. (9) No expenditure may be incurred or obligation entered into for such major capital construction projects including, without exception, land acquisition, site development, predesign, design, construction, and equipment acquisition and installation, until the allotment of the funds to be expended has been approved by the office of financial management. This limitation does not prohibit the continuation of expenditures and obligations into the succeeding biennium for projects for which allotments have been approved in the immediate prior biennium. (10) If at any time during the fiscal period the governor projects a cash deficit in a particular fund or account as defined by RCW 43.88.050 , the governor shall make across-the-board reductions in allotments for that particular fund or account so as to prevent a cash deficit, unless the legislature has directed the liquidation of the cash deficit over one or more fiscal periods. Except for the legislative and judicial branches and other agencies headed by elective officials, the governor shall review the statement of proposed operating expenditures for reasonableness and conformance with legislative intent. The governor may request corrections of proposed allotments submitted by the legislative and judicial branches and agencies headed by elective officials if those proposed allotments contain significant technical errors. Once the governor approves the proposed allotments, further revisions may at the request of the office of financial management or upon the agency's initiative be made on a quarterly basis and must be accompanied by an explanation of the reasons for significant changes. However, changes in appropriation level authorized by the legislature, changes required by across-the-board reductions mandated by the governor, changes caused by executive increases to spending authority, and changes caused by executive decreases to spending authority for failure to comply with the provisions of chapter 36.70A RCW may require additional revisions. Revisions shall not be made retroactively. However, the governor may assign to a reserve status any portion of an agency appropriation withheld as part of across-the-board reductions made by the governor and any portion of an agency appropriation conditioned on a contingent event by the appropriations act. The governor may remove these amounts from reserve status if the across-the-board reductions are subsequently modified or if the contingent event occurs. The director of financial management shall enter approved statements of proposed expenditures into the state budgeting, accounting, and reporting system within forty-five days after receipt of the proposed statements from the agencies. If an agency or the director of financial management is unable to meet these requirements, the director of financial management shall provide a timely explanation in writing to the legislative fiscal committees. (11) It is expressly provided that all agencies shall be required to maintain accounting records and to report thereon in the manner prescribed in this chapter and under the regulations issued pursuant to this chapter. Within ninety days of the end of the fiscal year, all agencies shall submit to the director of financial management their final adjustments to close their books for the fiscal year. Prior to submitting fiscal data, written or oral, to committees of the legislature, it is the responsibility of the agency submitting the data to reconcile it with the budget and accounting data reported by the agency to the director of financial management. (12) The director of financial management may exempt certain public funds from the allotment controls established under this chapter if it is not practical or necessary to allot the funds. Allotment control exemptions expire at the end of the fiscal biennium for which they are granted. The director of financial management shall report any exemptions granted under this subsection to the legislative fiscal committees.
RCW 43.20A.810 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 20A / Section 810
RCW 43.20A.810: Vision services for the homeless—Funding.
Status: in_force

To the extent consistent with the department's budget, the secretary shall pay for the eyeglasses hardware prescribed and dispensed pursuant to the program set up in RCW 43.20A.800 through 43.20A.840 . The secretary shall also attempt to obtain private sector funding for this program.
RCW 43.20A.605 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 20A / Section 605
RCW 43.20A.605: Authority to administer oaths and issue subpoenas—Provisions governing subpoenas.
Status: in_force

(1) The secretary or a designee shall have full authority to administer oaths and take testimony thereunder, to issue subpoenas requiring the attendance of witnesses before him or her together with all books, memoranda, papers, and other documents, articles or instruments, and to compel the disclosure by such witnesses of all facts known to them relative to the matters under investigation. (2) Subpoenas issued in adjudicative proceedings are governed by RCW 34.05.588 (1). (3) Subpoenas issued in the conduct of investigations required or authorized by other statutory provisions or necessary in the enforcement of other statutory provisions shall be governed by RCW 34.05.588 (2). (4) When a judicially approved subpoena is required by law, the secretary or designee may apply for and obtain a superior court order approving and authorizing a subpoena in advance of its issuance. The application may be made in the county where the subpoenaed person resides or is found, or in the county where the subpoenaed documents, records, or evidence are located, or in Thurston county. The application must: (a) State that an order is sought under this section; (b) Adequately specify the documents, records, evidence, or testimony; and (c) Include a declaration made under oath that an investigation is being conducted for a lawfully authorized purpose related to an investigation within the department's authority and that the subpoenaed documents, records, evidence, or testimony are reasonably related to an investigation within the department's authority. (5) When an application under subsection (4) of this section is made to the satisfaction of the court, the court must issue an order approving the subpoena. When a judicially approved subpoena is required by law, an order under this subsection constitutes authority of law for the agency to subpoena the documents, records, evidence, or testimony. (6) The secretary or designee may seek approval and a court may issue an order under this section without prior notice to any person, including the person to whom the subpoena is directed and the person who is the subject of an investigation. An application for court approval is subject to the fee and process set forth in RCW 36.18.012 (3).
RCW 43.05.040 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 05 / Section 040
RCW 43.05.040: Time to correct violations—Revisit—Issuance of penalties.
Status: in_force

(1) The owner and operator shall be given a reasonable period of time to correct violations identified during a technical assistance visit before any civil penalty provided for by law is imposed for those violations. A regulatory agency may revisit a facility, business, or other location after a technical assistance visit and a reasonable period of time has passed to correct violations identified by the agency in writing and issue civil penalties as provided for by law for any uncorrected violations. (2) During a visit under subsection (1) of this section, the regulatory agency may not issue civil penalties for violations not previously identified in a technical assistance visit, unless the violations are of the type for which the agency may issue a citation: (a) During a technical assistance visit under RCW 43.05.050 ; or (b) under RCW 43.05.090 .
RCW 66.08.100 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 08 / Section 100
RCW 66.08.100: Jurisdiction of action against board—Immunity from personal liability of members.
Status: in_force

No court of the state of Washington other than the superior court of Thurston county shall have jurisdiction over any action or proceeding against the board or any member thereof for anything done or omitted to be done in or arising out of the performance of his or her or their duties under this title. Neither the board nor any member or members thereof shall be personally liable in any action at law for damages sustained by any person because of any acts performed or done or omitted to be done by the board or any employee of the board in the performance of his or her duties and in the administration of this title or chapter 69.50 or 69.51A RCW.The fiscal agent of the state shall receive all moneys due the state from any other state or from the federal government, take all necessary steps for the collection thereof, and apply the same to the funds to which they belong. He or she shall collect from time to time all moneys that may accrue to the state by virtue of section 13 of the enabling act, or from any other source not otherwise provided for by law.
RCW 43.101.542 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 101 / Section 542
RCW 43.101.542: Supplemental criminal justice account.
Status: in_force

(1) The supplemental criminal justice account is created in the state treasury. All receipts from legislative appropriations, donations, gifts, grants, and funds from federal or private sources must be deposited into the account. Expenditures from the account must be used exclusively for local law enforcement grants authorized in RCW 43.101.540 for the purpose of providing direct support to local and tribal law enforcement agencies in hiring, retaining, and training law enforcement officers, peer counselors, and behavioral health personnel working in co-response to increase community policing and public safety. Only the criminal justice training commission or the commission's designee may authorize expenditures from the account. The account is subject to allotment procedures under chapter 43.88 RCW. Moneys in the account may be spent only after appropriation. Moneys may not be used to supplant general fund appropriations. (2) This section expires June 30, 2028.
RCW 43.99G.154 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 99G / Section 154
RCW 43.99G.154: Retirement of bonds from debt-limit general fund bond retirement account—Pledge and promise—Remedies of bondholders.
Status: in_force

The debt-limit general fund bond retirement account shall be used for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds authorized in RCW 43.99G.150 . The state finance committee shall, on or before June 30th of each year, certify to the state treasurer the amount needed in the ensuing twelve months to meet the bond retirement and interest requirements. On each date on which any interest or principal and interest payment is due, the state treasurer shall withdraw from any general state revenues received in the state treasury and deposit in the debt-limit general fund bond retirement account an amount equal to the amount certified by the state finance committee to be due on the payment date. Bonds issued under RCW 43.99G.150 shall state that they are a general obligation of the state of Washington, shall pledge the full faith and credit of the state to the payment of the principal thereof and the interest thereon, and shall contain an unconditional promise to pay the principal and interest as the same shall become due. The owner and holder of each of the bonds or the trustee for the owner and holder of any of the bonds may by mandamus or other appropriate proceeding require the transfer and payment of funds as directed in this section.
RCW 43.21G.070 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21G / Section 070
RCW 43.21G.070: Compliance by affected persons.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any provision of law or contract to the contrary, all persons who are affected by an order issued or action taken pursuant to this chapter as now or hereafter amended shall comply therewith immediately.
RCW 43.99P.030 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 99P / Section 030
RCW 43.99P.030: Retirement of bonds—Reimbursement of general fund from debt-limit general fund bond retirement account.
Status: in_force

(1) The debt-limit general fund bond retirement account shall be used for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds authorized in RCW 43.99P.020 (1), (2), and (3). (2) The state finance committee shall, on or before June 30th of each year, certify to the state treasurer the amount needed in the ensuing twelve months to meet the bond retirement and interest requirements on the bonds authorized in RCW 43.99P.020 (1), (2), and (3). (3) On each date on which any interest or principal and interest payment is due on bonds issued for the purposes of RCW 43.99P.020 (1), (2), and (3) the state treasurer shall withdraw from any general state revenues received in the state treasury and deposit in the debt-limit general fund bond retirement account an amount equal to the amount certified by the state finance committee to be due on the payment date.
RCW 43.01.040 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 01 / Section 040
RCW 43.01.040: Vacations—Computation and accrual—Transfer—Statement of necessity required for extension of unused leave.
Status: in_force

Each subordinate officer and employee of the several offices, departments, and institutions of the state government shall be entitled under their contract of employment with the state government to not less than eight hours of vacation leave with full pay for each month of employment. Each such subordinate officer and employee shall be entitled under such contract of employment to not less than eight additional hours of vacation with full pay each year for satisfactorily completing the first two, three, and five continuous years of employment respectively. Such part-time officers or employees of the state government who are employed on a regular schedule of duration of not less than one year shall be entitled under their contract of employment to that fractional part of the vacation leave that the total number of hours of such employment bears to the total number of hours of full-time employment. Each subordinate officer and employee of the several offices, departments, and institutions of the state government shall be entitled under his or her contract of employment with the state government to accrue unused vacation leave not to exceed 280 hours. However, employees of the Washington state ferries covered by collective bargaining agreements containing provisions in effect on June 30, 2017, allowing accrual of unused vacation leave not to exceed three hundred twenty hours shall be allowed to continue the higher accrual limit until such time as those provisions are modified through collective bargaining, or the bargaining unit changes its exclusive representative or is decertified. Officers and employees transferring within the several offices, departments, and institutions of the state government shall be entitled to transfer such accrued vacation leave to each succeeding state office, department, or institution. All vacation leave shall be taken at the time convenient to the employing office, department, or institution: PROVIDED, That if a subordinate officer's or employee's request for vacation leave is deferred by reason of the convenience of the employing office, department, or institution, and a statement of the necessity therefor is retained by the agency, then the aforesaid maximum 280 hours of accrued unused vacation leave shall be extended for each month said leave is so deferred.The utilities and transportation commission shall: (1) Exercise all the powers and perform all the duties prescribed by this title and by Title 81 RCW, or by any other law. (2) Regulate in the public interest, as provided by the public service laws, all persons engaging in the transportation of persons or property within this state for compensation. (3) Regulate in the public interest, as provided by the public service laws, the rates, services, facilities, and practices of all persons engaging within this state in the business of supplying any utility service or commodity to the public for compensation. (4) Make rules and regulations necessary to carry out its other powers and duties.
RCW 43.88.100 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 88 / Section 100
RCW 43.88.100: Executive hearings.
Status: in_force

The governor may provide for hearings on all agency requests for expenditures to enable him or her to make determinations as to the need, value or usefulness of activities or programs requested by agencies. The governor may require the attendance of proper agency officials at his or her hearings and it shall be their duty to disclose such information as may be required to enable the governor to arrive at his or her final determination.
RCW 43.52.360 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 52 / Section 360
RCW 43.52.360: Operating agency—Formation—Additional projects—Appeals—Membership, withdrawal—Dissolution.
Status: in_force

Any two or more cities or public utility districts or combinations thereof may form an operating agency (herein sometimes called a joint operating agency) for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, operating and owning plants, systems and other facilities and extensions thereof, for the generation and/or transmission of electric energy and power. Each such agency shall be a municipal corporation of the state of Washington with the right to sue and be sued in its own name. Application for the formation of an operating agency shall be made to the director of the department of ecology (herein sometimes referred to as the director) after the adoption of a resolution by the legislative body of each city or public utility district to be initial members thereof authorizing said city or district to participate. Such application shall set forth (1) the name and address of each participant, together with a certified copy of the resolution authorizing its participation; (2) a general description of the project and the principal project works, including dams, reservoirs, power houses and transmission lines; (3) the general location of the project and, if a hydroelectric project, the name of the stream on which such proposed project is to be located; (4) if the project is for the generation of electricity, the proposed use or market for the power to be developed; (5) a general statement of the electric loads and resources of each of the participants; (6) a statement of the proposed method of financing the preliminary engineering and other studies and the participation therein by each of the participants. Within ten days after such application is filed with the director of the department of ecology notice thereof shall be published by the director once a week for four consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or counties in which such project is to be located, setting forth the names of the participants and the general nature, extent and location of the project. Any public utility wishing to do so may object to such application by filing an objection, setting forth the reasons therefor, with the director of the department of ecology not later than ten days after the date of last publication of such notice. Within ninety days after the date of last publication the director shall either make findings thereon or have instituted a hearing thereon. In the event the director has neither made findings nor instituted a hearing within ninety days of the date of last publication, or if such hearing is instituted within such time but no findings are made within one hundred and twenty days of the date of such last publication, the application shall be deemed to have been approved and the operating agency established. If it shall appear (a) that the statements set forth in said application are substantially correct; (b) that the contemplated project is such as is adaptable to the needs, both actual and prospective, of the participants and such other public utilities as indicate a good faith intention by contract or by letter of intent to participate in the use of such project; (c) that no objection to the formation of such operating agency has been filed by any other public utility which prior to and at the time of the filing of the application for such operating agency had on file a permit or license from an agency of the state or an agency of the United States, whichever has primary jurisdiction, for the construction of such project; (d) that adequate provision will be made for financing the preliminary engineering, legal and other costs necessary thereto; the director shall make findings to that effect and enter an order creating such operating agency, establishing the name thereof and the specific project for the construction and operation for which such operating agency is formed. Such order shall not be construed to constitute a bar to any other public utility proceeding according to law to procure any required governmental permits, licenses or authority, but such order shall establish the competency of the operating agency to proceed according to law to procure such permits, licenses or authority. No operating agency shall undertake projects or conservation activities in addition to those for which it was formed without the approval of the legislative bodies of a majority of the members thereof. Prior to undertaking any new project for acquisition of an energy resource, a joint operating agency shall prepare a plan which details a least-cost approach for investment in energy resources. The plan shall include an analysis of the costs of developing conservation compared with costs of developing other energy resources and a strategy for implementation of the plan. The plan shall be presented to the energy and utilities committees of the senate and house of representatives for their review and comment. In the event that an operating agency desires to undertake such a hydroelectric project at a site or sites upon which any publicly or privately owned public utility has a license or permit or has a prior application for a license or permit pending with any commission or agency, state or federal, having jurisdiction thereof, application to construct such additional project shall be made to the director of the department of ecology in the same manner, subject to the same requirements and with the same notice as required for an initial agency and project and shall not be constructed until an order authorizing the same shall have been made by the director in the manner provided for such original application. Any party who has joined in filing the application for, or objections against, the creation of such operating agency and/or the construction of an additional project, and who feels aggrieved by any order or finding of the director shall have the right to appeal to the superior court in the manner set forth in RCW 43.52.430 . After the formation of an operating agency, any other city or district may become a member thereof upon application to such agency after the adoption of a resolution of its legislative body authorizing said city or district to participate, and with the consent of the operating agency by the affirmative vote of the majority of its members. Any member may withdraw from an operating agency, and thereupon such member shall forfeit any and all rights or interest which it may have in such operating agency or in any of the assets thereof: PROVIDED, That all contractual obligations incurred while a member shall remain in full force and effect. An operating agency may be dissolved by the unanimous agreement of the members, and the members, after making provisions for the payment of all debts and obligations, shall thereupon hold the assets thereof as tenants in common.
RCW 43.21G.040 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21G / Section 040
RCW 43.21G.040: Governor's energy emergency powers—Energy supply alert—Construction of chapter.
Status: in_force

(1) The governor may subject to the definitions and limitations provided in this chapter: (a) Upon finding that an energy supply alert exists within this state or any part thereof, declare a condition of energy supply alert; or (b) Upon finding that an energy emergency exists within this state or any part thereof, declare a condition of energy emergency. A condition of energy emergency shall terminate thirty consecutive days after the declaration of such condition if the legislature is not in session at the time of such declaration and if the governor fails to convene the legislature pursuant to Article III, section 7 of the Constitution of the state of Washington within thirty consecutive days of such declaration. If the legislature is in session or convened, in accordance with this subsection, the duration of the condition of energy emergency shall be limited in accordance with subsection (3) of this section. Upon the declaration of a condition of energy supply alert or energy emergency, the governor shall present to the committee any proposed plans for programs, controls, standards, and priorities for the production, allocation, and consumption of energy during any current or anticipated condition of energy emergency, any proposed plans for the suspension or modification of existing rules of the Washington Administrative Code, and any other relevant matters the governor deems desirable. The governor shall review any recommendations of the committee concerning such plans and matters. Upon the declaration of a condition of energy supply alert or energy emergency, the emergency powers as set forth in this chapter shall become effective only within the area described in the declaration. (2) A condition of energy supply alert shall terminate ninety consecutive days after the declaration of such condition unless: (a) Extended by the governor upon issuing a finding that the energy supply alert continues to exist, and with prior approval of such an extension by the committee; or (b) Extended by the governor based on a declaration by the president of the United States of a national state of emergency in regard to energy supply; or (c) Upon the request of the governor, extended by declaration of the legislature by concurrent resolution of a continuing energy supply alert. An initial extension of an energy supply alert approved and implemented under this subsection shall be for a specified period of time not to exceed ninety consecutive days after the expiration of the original declaration. Any subsequent extensions shall be for a specified period of time not to exceed one hundred twenty consecutive days after the expiration of the previous extension. (3) A condition of energy emergency shall terminate forty-five consecutive days after the declaration of such condition unless: (a) Extended by the governor upon issuing a finding that the energy emergency continues to exist, and with prior approval of such an extension by the committee; or (b) Extended by the governor based on a declaration by the president of the United States of a national state of emergency in regard to energy supply; or (c) Upon the request of the governor, extended by declaration of the legislature by concurrent resolution of a continuing energy emergency. An initial extension of an energy emergency approved and implemented under this subsection shall be for a specified period of time not to exceed forty-five consecutive days after the expiration of the original declaration. Any subsequent extensions shall be for a specified period of time not to exceed sixty consecutive days after the expiration of the previous extension. (4) A condition of energy supply alert or energy emergency shall cease to exist upon a declaration to that effect by either of the following: (a) The governor; or (b) the legislature, by concurrent resolution, if in regular or special session: PROVIDED, That the governor shall terminate a condition of energy supply alert or energy emergency when the energy supply situation upon which the declaration of a condition of energy supply alert or energy emergency was based no longer exists. (5) In a condition of energy supply alert, the governor may, as deemed necessary to preserve and protect the public health, safety, and general welfare, and to minimize, to the fullest extent possible, the injurious economic, social, and environmental consequences of such energy supply alert, issue orders to: (a) Suspend or modify existing rules of the Washington Administrative Code of any state agency relating to the consumption of energy by such agency or to the production of energy, and (b) direct any state or local governmental agency to implement programs relating to the consumption of energy by the agency which have been developed by the governor or the agency and reviewed by the committee. (6) In addition to the powers in subsection (5) of this section, in a condition of energy emergency, the governor may, as deemed necessary to preserve and protect the public health, safety, and general welfare, and to minimize, to the fullest extent possible, the injurious economic, social, and environmental consequences of such an emergency, issue orders to: (a) Implement programs, controls, standards, and priorities for the production, allocation, and consumption of energy; (b) suspend and modify existing pollution control standards and requirements or any other standards or requirements affecting or affected by the use of energy, including those relating to air or water quality control; and (c) establish and implement regional programs and agreements for the purposes of coordinating the energy programs and actions of the state with those of the federal government and of other states and localities. (7) The governor shall make a reasonable, good faith effort to provide the committee with notice when the governor is considering declaring a condition of energy supply alert or energy emergency. The governor shall immediately transmit the declaration of a condition of energy supply alert or energy emergency and the findings upon which the declaration is based and any orders issued under the powers granted in this chapter to the committee. The governor shall provide the committee with at least fourteen days' notice when requesting an extension of a condition of energy supply alert or energy emergency, unless such notice is waived by the committee. (8) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to mean that any program, control, standard, priority or other policy created under the authority of the emergency powers authorized by this chapter shall have any continuing legal effect after the cessation of the condition of energy supply alert or energy emergency. (9) If any provision of this chapter is in conflict with any other provision, limitation, or restriction which is now in effect under any other law of this state, including, but not limited to, chapter 34.05 RCW, this chapter shall govern and control, and such other law or rule issued thereunder shall be deemed superseded for the purposes of this chapter. (10) Because of the emergency nature of this chapter, all actions authorized or required hereunder, or taken pursuant to any order issued by the governor, shall be exempted from any and all requirements and provisions of the state environmental policy act of 1971, chapter 43.21C RCW, including, but not limited to, the requirement for environmental impact statements. (11) Except as provided in this section nothing in this chapter shall exempt a person from compliance with the provisions of any other law, rule, or directive unless specifically ordered by the governor.
RCW 43.30.010 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 30 / Section 010
RCW 43.30.010: Purpose.
Status: in_force

The purpose of this chapter is to provide for more effective and efficient management of the forest and land resources in the state by consolidating into a department of natural resources certain powers, duties and functions of the division of forestry of the department of conservation and development, the board of state land commissioners, the state forest board, all state sustained yield forest committees, director of conservation and development, state capitol committee, director of licensing, secretary of state, director of revenue, and commissioner of public lands.
RCW 43.99W.050 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 99W / Section 050
RCW 43.99W.050: Payment of principal and interest—Additional means for raising money authorized.
Status: in_force

The legislature may provide additional means for raising moneys for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds authorized in RCW 43.99W.010 , and RCW 43.99W.020 and 43.99W.030 shall not be deemed to provide an exclusive method for the payment.
RCW 43.17.060 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 17 / Section 060
RCW 43.17.060: Departmental rules and regulations.
Status: in_force

The director of each department may prescribe rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the government of his or her department, the conduct of its subordinate officers and employees, the disposition and performance of its business, and the custody, use, and preservation of the records, papers, books, documents, and property pertaining thereto.
RCW 43.88.090 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 88 / Section 090
RCW 43.88.090: Development of budget—Detailed estimates—Mission statement, measurable goals, quality and productivity objectives—Integration of strategic plans and performance assessment procedures—Reviews by office of financial management and Washington technology solutions—Governor-elect input.
Status: in_force

(1) For purposes of developing budget proposals to the legislature, the governor shall have the power, and it shall be the governor's duty, to require from proper agency officials such detailed estimates and other information in such form and at such times as the governor shall direct. The governor shall communicate statewide priorities to agencies for use in developing biennial budget recommendations for their agency and shall seek public involvement and input on these priorities. The estimates for the legislature and the judiciary shall be transmitted to the governor and shall be included in the budget without revision. The estimates for state pension contributions shall be based on the rates provided in chapter 41.45 RCW. Copies of all such estimates shall be transmitted to the standing committees on ways and means of the house and senate at the same time as they are filed with the governor and the office of financial management. The estimates shall include statements or tables which indicate, by agency, the state funds which are required for the receipt of federal matching revenues. The estimates shall be revised as necessary to reflect legislative enactments and adopted appropriations and shall be included with the initial biennial allotment submitted under RCW 43.88.110 . The estimates must reflect that the agency considered any alternatives to reduce costs or improve service delivery identified in the findings of a performance audit of the agency by the joint legislative audit and review committee. Nothing in this subsection requires performance audit findings to be published as part of the budget. (2) Each state agency shall define its mission and establish measurable goals for achieving desirable results for those who receive its services and the taxpayers who pay for those services. Each agency shall also develop clear strategies and timelines to achieve its goals. This section does not require an agency to develop a new mission or goals in place of identifiable missions or goals that meet the intent of this section. The mission and goals of each agency must conform to statutory direction and limitations. (3) For the purpose of assessing activity performance, each state agency shall establish quality and productivity objectives for each major activity in its budget. The objectives must be consistent with the missions and goals developed under this section. The objectives must be expressed to the extent practicable in outcome-based, objective, and measurable form unless an exception to adopt a different standard is granted by the office of financial management and approved by the legislative committee on performance review. Objectives must specifically address the statutory purpose or intent of the program or activity and focus on data that measure whether the agency is achieving or making progress toward the purpose of the activity and toward statewide priorities. The office of financial management shall provide necessary professional and technical assistance to assist state agencies in the development of strategic plans that include the mission of the agency and its programs, measurable goals, strategies, and performance measurement systems. (4) Each state agency shall adopt procedures for and perform continuous self-assessment of each activity, using the mission, goals, objectives, and measurements required under subsections (2) and (3) of this section. The assessment of the activity must also include an evaluation of major information technology systems or projects that may assist the agency in achieving or making progress toward the activity purpose and statewide priorities. The evaluation of proposed major information technology systems or projects shall be in accordance with the standards and policies established by the technology services board. Agencies' progress toward the mission, goals, objectives, and measurements required by subsections (2) and (3) of this section is subject to review as set forth in this subsection. (a) The office of financial management shall regularly conduct reviews of selected activities to analyze whether the objectives and measurements submitted by agencies demonstrate progress toward statewide results. (b) The office of financial management shall consult with: (i) The four-year institutions of higher education in those reviews that involve four-year institutions of higher education; and (ii) the state board for community and technical colleges in those reviews that involve two-year institutions of higher education. (c) The goal is for all major activities to receive at least one review each year. (d) Washington technology solutions shall review major information technology systems in use by state agencies periodically. (5) It is the policy of the legislature that each agency's budget recommendations must be directly linked to the agency's stated mission and program, quality, and productivity goals and objectives. Consistent with this policy, agency budget proposals must include integration of performance measures that allow objective determination of an activity's success in achieving its goals. When a review under subsection (4) of this section or other analysis determines that the agency's objectives demonstrate that the agency is making insufficient progress toward the goals of any particular program or is otherwise underachieving or inefficient, the agency's budget request shall contain proposals to remedy or improve the selected programs. The office of financial management shall develop a plan to merge the budget development process with agency performance assessment procedures. The plan must include a schedule to integrate agency strategic plans and performance measures into agency budget requests and the governor's budget proposal over three fiscal biennia. The plan must identify those agencies that will implement the revised budget process in the 1997-1999 biennium, the 1999-2001 biennium, and the 2001-2003 biennium. In consultation with the legislative fiscal committees, the office of financial management shall recommend statutory and procedural modifications to the state's budget, accounting, and reporting systems to facilitate the performance assessment procedures and the merger of those procedures with the state budget process. The plan and recommended statutory and procedural modifications must be submitted to the legislative fiscal committees by September 30, 1996. (6) In reviewing agency budget requests in order to prepare the governor's biennial budget request, the office of financial management shall consider the extent to which the agency's activities demonstrate progress toward the statewide budgeting priorities, along with any specific review conducted under subsection (4) of this section. (7) In the year of the gubernatorial election, the governor shall invite the governor-elect or the governor-elect's designee to attend all hearings provided in RCW 43.88.100 ; and the governor shall furnish the governor-elect or the governor-elect's designee with such information as will enable the governor-elect or the governor-elect's designee to gain an understanding of the state's budget requirements. The governor-elect or the governor-elect's designee may ask such questions during the hearings and require such information as the governor-elect or the governor-elect's designee deems necessary and may make recommendations in connection with any item of the budget which, with the governor-elect's reasons therefor, shall be presented to the legislature in writing with the budget document. Copies of all such estimates and other required information shall also be submitted to the standing committees on ways and means of the house and senate.
RCW 43.71B.020 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 71B / Section 020
RCW 43.71B.020: Indian health advisory council—Duties—Reinvestment committee—Role of health care authority.
Status: in_force

(1) The governor's Indian health advisory council is established, consisting of: (a) The following voting members: (i) One representative from each tribe, designated by the tribal council, who is either the tribe's commission delegate or an individual specifically designated for this role, or his or her designee; (ii) The chief executive officer of each urban Indian organization, or the urban Indian organization's commission delegate if applicable, or his or her designee; (iii) One member from each of the two largest caucuses of the house of representatives, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives; (iv) One member from each of the two largest caucuses of the senate, appointed by the president of the senate; and (v) One member representing the governor's office; and (b) The following nonvoting members: (i) One member of the executive leadership team from each of the following state agencies: The authority; the department of children, youth, and families; the department of commerce; the department of corrections; the department of health; the department of social and health services; the office of the insurance commissioner; the office of the superintendent of public instruction; and the Washington health benefit exchange; (ii) The chief operating officer of each Indian health service area office and service unit, or his or her designee; (iii) The executive director of the commission, or his or her designee; and (iv) The executive director of the board, or his or her designee. (2) The advisory council shall meet at least three times per year when the legislature is not in session, in a forum that offers both in-person and remote participation where everyone can hear and be heard. (3) The advisory council has the responsibility to: (a) Adopt the biennial Indian health improvement advisory plan prepared and amended by the reinvestment committee as described in RCW 43.71B.030 no later than November 1st of each odd-numbered year; (b) Address current or proposed policies or actions that have tribal implications and are not able to be resolved or addressed at the agency level; (c) Facilitate better understanding among advisory council members and their support staff of the Indian health system, American Indian and Alaska Native health disparities and historical trauma, and tribal sovereignty and self-governance; (d) Provide oversight of contracting and performance of service coordination organizations or service contracting entities as defined in RCW 70.320.010 in order to address their impacts on services to American Indians and Alaska Natives and relationships with Indian health care providers; and (e) Provide oversight of the Indian health improvement reinvestment account created in RCW 43.71B.040 , ensuring that amounts expended from the reinvestment account are consistent with the advisory plan adopted under RCW 43.71B.030 . (4) The reinvestment committee of the advisory council is established, consisting of the following members of the advisory council: (a) With voting rights on the reinvestment committee, every advisory council member who represents a tribe or an urban Indian organization; and (b) With nonvoting rights on the reinvestment committee, every advisory council member who represents a state agency, the Indian health service area office or a service unit, the commission, and the board. (5) The advisory council may appoint technical advisory committees, which may include members of the advisory council, as needed to address specific issues and concerns. (6) The authority, in conjunction with the represented state agencies on the advisory council, shall supply such information and assistance as are deemed necessary for the advisory council and its committees to carry out its duties under this section. (7) The authority shall provide (a) administrative and clerical assistance to the advisory council and its committees and (b) technical assistance with the assistance of the commission. (8) The advisory council meetings, reports and recommendations, and other forms of collaboration described in this chapter support the tribal consultation process but are not a substitute for the requirements for state agencies to conduct consultation or maintain government-to-government relationships with tribes under federal and state law.
RCW 43.280.040 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 280 / Section 040
RCW 43.280.040: Organizations eligible.
Status: in_force

Local governments, nonprofit community groups, and nonprofit treatment providers including organizations which provide services, such as emergency housing, counseling, and crisis intervention shall, among others, be eligible for grants under the program established in RCW 43.280.020 .
RCW 43.79.495 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 79 / Section 495
RCW 43.79.495: Budget stabilization account—Governance.
Status: in_force

(1) The budget stabilization account is governed by the provisions in Article VII, section 12 and this section. (2) By June 30th of each fiscal year, the state treasurer shall transfer an amount equal to one percent of the general state revenues for that fiscal year to the budget stabilization account. (3) For the purposes of Article VII, section 12, this section, and RCW 82.33.050 , the state employment growth forecast shall be based on the total nonfarm payroll employment data series.
RCW 43.83B.435 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 83B / Section 435
RCW 43.83B.435: Emergency drought response account.
Status: in_force

The emergency drought response account is created in the state treasury. All receipts from moneys received pursuant to RCW 43.83B.406 , moneys appropriated to the account by the legislature for the purpose of funding emergency drought response actions or moneys directed to the account from any other lawful source must be deposited into the account. Moneys in the account may be spent only after appropriation. Expenditures from the account may be used only for the costs of implementing the powers set forth in RCW 43.83B.410 through 43.83B.420 to provide relief for the immediate hardship caused by water unavailability while a drought emergency order issued pursuant to RCW 43.83B.405 (2) is in effect. The department must, at a minimum, provide the director of the office of financial management, legislative fiscal committees, and the joint legislative committee on water supply during drought, established under RCW 90.86.010 , with a close-out cost summary following the expiration of an emergency drought order during which expenditures were made from the account.
RCW 43.330A.030 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 330A / Section 030
RCW 43.330A.030: Statewide helpline, counseling, and referral service.
Status: in_force

Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, the office shall contract with a level one trauma center in the state of Washington to provide a statewide helpline, counseling, and referral service for victims, friends, and family members impacted by gun violence and community professionals, legal practitioners, health providers, and others who engage with them. The service must be developed in consultation with the office of crime victims advocacy established in RCW 43.280.080 , and include the opportunity for brief clinical encounters, problem solving, and referral to the best statewide resources available to meet their needs. The service must become conversant with providers across the state that are trained in evidence-based trauma therapy and establish relationships to ensure specific knowledge of available resources. The office of crime victims advocacy established in RCW 43.280.080 must provide consultation within existing resources.
RCW 43.30.810 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 30 / Section 810
RCW 43.30.810: Olympic natural resources center—Purpose, programs.
Status: in_force

(1) The Olympic natural resources center is hereby created at the University of Washington in the school of environmental and forest sciences and the school of aquatic and fishery sciences. (2) The Olympic natural resources center shall maintain facilities and programs in the western portion of the Olympic Peninsula. The purpose of the center is to demonstrate innovative management methods which successfully integrate environmental, energy, marine, and economic interests into pragmatic management of forest and ocean resources. The center shall combine research and educational opportunities with experimental forestry, oceans management, and traditional management knowledge into an overall program which demonstrates that management based on sound economic principles is made superior when combined with new methods of management based on ecological principles. The programs developed by the center shall include the following: (a) Research and education on a broad range of ocean resources problems and opportunities in the region, such as estuarine processes, ocean and coastal management, renewable energy production, offshore development, fisheries and shellfish enhancement, and coastal business development, tourism, and recreation. In developing this component of the center's program, the center shall collaborate with coastal educational institutions such as Grays Harbor community college and Peninsula community college; (b) Research and education on forest resources management issues on the landscape, ecosystem, or regional level, including issues that cross legal and administrative boundaries; (c) Research and education that broadly integrates marine and terrestrial issues, including interactions of marine, aquatic, and terrestrial ecosystems, and that identifies options and opportunities to integrate the production of commodities with the preservation of ecological values. Where appropriate, programs shall address issues and opportunities that cross legal and administrative boundaries; (d) Research and education on natural resources and their social and economic implications, and on alternative economic and social bases for sustainable, healthy, resource-based communities; (e) Educational opportunities such as workshops, short courses, and continuing education for resource professionals, policy forums, information exchanges including international exchanges where appropriate, conferences, student research, and public education; and (f) Creation of a neutral forum where parties with diverse interests are encouraged to address and resolve their conflicts.
RCW 43.70.680 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 70 / Section 680
RCW 43.70.680: Volunteers for emergency or disaster assistance.
Status: in_force

(1) The department is authorized to contact persons issued credentials under this title for the purpose of requesting permission to collect his or her name, profession, and contact information as a possible volunteer in the event of a bioterrorism incident, natural disaster, public health emergency, or other emergency or disaster, as defined in RCW 38.52.010 , that requires the services of health care providers. (2) The department shall maintain a record of all volunteers who provide information under subsection (1) of this section. Upon request, the department shall provide the record of volunteers to: (a) Local health departments; (b) State agencies engaged in public health emergency planning and response, including the state military department; (c) Agencies of other states responsible for public health emergency planning and response; and (d) The centers for disease control and prevention.
RCW 43.105.220 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 105 / Section 220
RCW 43.105.220: Strategic information technology plan—Biennial performance reports.
Status: in_force

(1) The agency shall prepare a state strategic information technology plan which shall establish a statewide mission, goals, and objectives for the use of information technology, including goals for electronic access to government records, information, and services. The plan shall be developed in accordance with the standards and policies established by the agency. The agency shall seek the advice of the board in the development of this plan. The plan shall be updated as necessary and submitted to the governor and the legislature. (2) The agency shall prepare a biennial state performance report on information technology based on state agency performance reports required under RCW 43.105.235 and other information deemed appropriate by the agency. The report shall include, but not be limited to: (a) An analysis, based upon agency portfolios, of the state's information technology infrastructure, including its value, condition, and capacity; (b) An evaluation of performance relating to information technology; (c) An assessment of progress made toward implementing the state strategic information technology plan, including progress toward electronic access to public information and enabling citizens to have two-way access to public records, information, and services; and (d) An analysis of the success or failure, feasibility, progress, costs, and timeliness of implementation of major information technology projects under RCW 43.105.245 . At a minimum, the portion of the report regarding major technology projects must include: (i) The total cost data for the entire life-cycle of the project, including capital and operational costs, broken down by staffing costs, contracted service, hardware purchase or lease, software purchase or lease, travel, and training. The original budget must also be shown for comparison; (ii) The original proposed project schedule and the final actual project schedule; (iii) Data regarding progress towards meeting the original goals and performance measures of the project; (iv) Discussion of lessons learned on the project, performance of any contractors used, and reasons for project delays or cost increases; and (v) Identification of benefits generated by major information technology projects developed under RCW 43.105.245 . (3) Copies of the report shall be distributed biennially to the governor and the legislature. The major technology section of the report must examine major information technology projects completed in the previous biennium.
RCW 43.17.380 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 17 / Section 380
RCW 43.17.380: Quality management, accountability, and performance system—Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in RCW 43.17.385 and 43.17.390 : (1) "State agency" or "agency" means a state agency, department, office, officer, board, commission, bureau, division, institution, or institution of higher education, and all offices of executive branch state government-elected officials, except agricultural commissions under Title 15 RCW. (2) "Quality management, accountability, and performance system" means a nationally recognized integrated, interdisciplinary system of measures, tools, and reports used to improve the performance of a work unit or organization.
RCW 43.07.390 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 07 / Section 390
RCW 43.07.390: Real estate excise tax enforcement—Disclosure of transfer of controlling interest, real property.
Status: in_force

(1)(a) The secretary of state must adopt rules requiring any entity that is required to file an annual report with the secretary of state, including entities under Titles 23 , 23B , 24 , and 25 RCW, to disclose: (i) Any transfer of the controlling interest in the entity or an interest that amounts to at least one-third of a controlling interest in the entity; and (ii) the granting of any option to acquire an interest described in (a)(i) of this subsection. (b) The disclosure requirement in this subsection only applies to entities owning an interest in real property located in this state. (2) This information must be made available to the department of revenue upon request for the purposes of tracking the transfer of the controlling interest in entities owning real property and to determine when the real estate excise tax is applicable in such cases. (3) For the purposes of this section, "controlling interest" has the same meaning as provided in RCW 82.45.033 .
RCW 43.216.080 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 216 / Section 080
RCW 43.216.080: Integration with other entities.
Status: in_force

(1) The foundation of quality in the early care and education system in Washington is the quality rating and improvement system entitled the early achievers program. In an effort to build on the existing quality framework, enhance access to quality care for children, and strengthen the entire early care and education systems in the state, it is important to integrate the efforts of state and local governments, school districts, institutions of higher education as defined in RCW 28B.10.016 , and nonprofit organizations. (2) Local governments, school districts, institutions of higher education as defined in RCW 28B.10.016 , and nonprofit organizations are encouraged to collaborate with the department when establishing and strengthening early learning programs for residents. (3) Local governments, school districts, institutions of higher education as defined in RCW 28B.10.016 , and nonprofit organizations may contribute funds to the department for the following purposes: (a) Initial investments to build capacity and quality in local early care and education programming; (b) Reductions in copayments charged to parents or caregivers; (c) To expand access and eligibility in the early childhood education and assistance program. (4) Funds contributed to the department by local governments, school districts, institutions of higher education as defined in RCW 28B.10.016 , and nonprofit organizations must be deposited in the early start account established in RCW 43.216.165 . (5) Children enrolled in the early childhood education and assistance program with funds contributed in accordance with subsection (3)(c) of this section are not considered to be eligible children as defined in RCW 43.216.505 and are not considered to be part of the state-funded entitlement required in RCW 43.216.556 .
RCW 43.20A.635 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 20A / Section 635
RCW 43.20A.635: Services for children with disabilities.
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the secretary of social and health services and he or she shall have the power to establish and administer a program of services for children with disabilities or who are suffering from physical conditions which lead to disabilities, which shall provide for developing, extending, and improving services for locating such children, and for providing for medical, surgical, corrective, and other services and care, and facilities for diagnosis, hospitalization, and aftercare; to supervise the administration of those services, included in the program, which are not administered directly by it; to extend and improve any such services, including those in existence on April 1, 1941; to cooperate with medical, health, nursing, and welfare groups and organizations, and with any agency of the state charged with the administration of laws providing for vocational rehabilitation of children with physical disabilities; to cooperate with the federal government, through its appropriate agency or instrumentality in developing, extending, and improving such services; and to receive and expend all funds made available to the department by the federal government, the state or its political subdivisions or from other sources, for such purposes.
RCW 43.79.015 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 79 / Section 015
RCW 43.79.015: Accounts in general fund designated as accounts in state treasury—Credit of earnings to general fund.
Status: in_force

On and after July 1, 1985, all accounts heretofore or hereafter created in the state general fund shall be designated and treated as accounts in the state treasury. Unless otherwise designated by statute, all earnings on balances of such accounts shall be credited to the general fund.
RCW 43.30.215 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 30 / Section 215
RCW 43.30.215: Powers and duties of board.
Status: in_force

The board shall: (1) Perform duties relating to appraisal, appeal, approval, and hearing functions as provided by law; (2) Establish policies to ensure that the acquisition, management, and disposition of all lands and resources within the department's jurisdiction are based on sound principles designed to achieve the maximum effective development and use of such lands and resources consistent with laws applicable thereto; (3) Constitute the board of appraisers provided for in Article 16, section 2 of the state Constitution; (4) Constitute the commission on harbor lines provided for in Article 15, section 1 of the state Constitution as amended; (5) Constitute the board on geographic names as provided for in RCW 43.30.291 through 43.30.295 ; and (6) Adopt and enforce rules as may be deemed necessary and proper for carrying out the powers, duties, and functions imposed upon it by this chapter.
RCW 43.216.075 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 216 / Section 075
RCW 43.216.075: Early learning advisory council—Policy development and implementation—Early achievers review subcommittee.
Status: in_force

(1) The early learning advisory council is established to advise the department on statewide early learning issues that contribute to the ongoing efforts of building a comprehensive system of quality early learning programs and services for Washington's young children and families. (2) The council shall work in conjunction with the department to: (a) Assist in policy development and implementation that promotes alignment of private and public sector actions, objectives, and resources, with the overall goal of promoting school readiness for all children; (b) Provide recommendations annually to the governor and the legislature, beginning August 31, 2022, regarding the phased implementation of strategies and priorities identified in RCW 43.216.772 ; (c) Maintain a focus on racial equity and inclusion in order to dismantle systemic racism at its core and contribute to statewide efforts to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty; (d) Maintain a focus on inclusionary practices for children with disabilities; (e) Partner with nonprofit organizations to collect and analyze data and measure progress; and (f) Assist the department in monitoring and ensuring that the investments funded by the fair start for kids account created in RCW 43.216.770 are designed to support the following objectives: (i) Advance racial equity and strengthen families by recognizing and responding to the growing diversity of our state's population; (ii) Promote access to affordable, high quality child care and early learning opportunities for all families, paying particular attention to the needs of rural and other underserved communities; (iii) Promote kindergarten readiness by enhancing child development, including development of social-emotional skills, and eliminating exclusionary admissions practices and disproportionate removals in child care and early learning programs; and (iv) Contribute to efforts to strengthen and grow our state's economy by supporting working parents as well as stabilizing and supporting the child care and early learning workforce. (3) In collaboration with the council, the department shall consult with its advisory groups and other interested stakeholders and shall submit a biennial report to the governor and legislature describing how the investments funded by the fair start for kids act have impacted the policy objectives stated in subsection (2)(f) of this section. The first report under this section is due September 15, 2023. The council shall include diverse, statewide representation from public, nonprofit, and for-profit entities. Its membership shall include critical partners in service delivery and reflect regional, racial, and cultural diversity to adequately represent the interests of all children and families in the state. (4) Councilmembers shall serve two-year terms. However, to stagger the terms of the council, the initial appointments for twelve of the members shall be for one year. Once the initial one-year to two-year terms expire, all subsequent terms shall be for two years, with the terms expiring on June 30th of the applicable year. The terms shall be staggered in such a way that, where possible, the terms of members representing a specific group do not expire simultaneously. (5) The council shall consist of members essential to coordinating services statewide prenatal through age 12, as follows: (a) In addition to being staffed and supported by the department, the governor shall appoint one representative from each of the following: The department of commerce and the department of health; (b) One representative from the student achievement council, to be appointed by the student achievement council; (c) The military spouse liaison created within the department of veterans affairs under RCW 43.60A.245 ; (d) One representative from the state board for community and technical colleges, to be appointed by the state board for community and technical colleges; (e) One representative from the office of the superintendent of public instruction, to be appointed by the superintendent of public instruction; (f) Two members of the house of representatives, one from each caucus, to be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and two members of the senate, one from each caucus, to be appointed by the majority leader in the senate and the minority leader in the senate; (g) Two parents, one of whom serves on the department's parent advisory group, to be appointed by the parent advisory group; (h) One representative of the private-public partnership created in RCW 43.216.065 , to be appointed by the partnership board; (i) One representative from the developmental disabilities community representing children and families involved in part C of the federal individuals with disabilities education act and one representative from the developmental disabilities community representing children and families involved in part B of the federal individuals with disabilities education act; (j) Two representatives from early learning regional coalitions; (k) Up to five representatives of underserved communities who have a special expertise or interest in high quality early learning, one to be appointed by each of the following commissions: (i) The Washington state commission on Asian Pacific American affairs established under chapter 43.117 RCW; (ii) The Washington state commission on African American affairs established under chapter 43.113 RCW; (iii) The Washington state commission on Hispanic affairs established under chapter 43.115 RCW; (iv) The Washington state women's commission established under chapter 43.119 RCW; and (v) The Washington state office of equity established under chapter 43.06D RCW; (l) Two representatives designated by sovereign tribal governments, one of whom must be a representative of a tribal early childhood education assistance program or head start program; (m) One representative from the Washington federation of independent schools; (n) One representative from the Washington library association; (o) One representative from a statewide advocacy coalition of organizations that focuses on early learning; (p) One representative from an association representing statewide business interests, to be appointed by the association and one representative from a regional business coalition; (q) One representative of an advocacy organization for immigrants and refugees; (r) One representative of an organization advocating for expanded learning opportunities and school-age child care programs; (s) One representative from the largest union representing child care providers; (t) A representative of a head start, early head start, or migrant and seasonal head start program, to be appointed by the head start collaboration office; (u) A representative of educational service districts, to be appointed by a statewide association of educational service district board members; (v) A provider responsible for programs under section 619 of the federal individuals with disabilities education act, to be appointed by the superintendent of public instruction; (w) A representative of the state agency responsible for part C of the federal individuals with disabilities education act, to be appointed by the department; (x) A representative of the early childhood education and assistance program, to be appointed by an association representing early childhood education and assistance programs; (y) A representative of licensed family home providers, to be appointed by the largest union representing child care providers; (z) A representative of child care centers, to be appointed by an association representing child care centers; (aa) A representative from the home visiting advisory committee established in RCW 43.216.130 , to be appointed by the committee; (bb) An infant or early childhood mental health expert, to be appointed by the Barnard center for infant and early childhood mental health at the University of Washington; (cc) A family, friend, and neighbor caregiver, to be appointed by the largest union representing child care providers; (dd) A representative from prenatal to three services; (ee) A pediatrician, to be appointed by the state chapter of the American academy of pediatrics; and (ff) A representative of the statewide child care resource and referral organization, to be appointed by the statewide child care resource and referral organization. (6) The council shall be cochaired by two members, to be elected by the council for two-year terms and not more than one cochair may represent a state agency. (7) At the direction of the cochairs, the council may convene advisory groups, such as a parent caucus, to evaluate specific issues and report related findings and recommendations to the full council. (8) The council shall appoint two members and stakeholders with expertise in early learning to sit on the technical working group created in section 2, chapter 234, Laws of 2010. (9) Each member of the council shall be compensated in accordance with RCW 43.03.240 and reimbursed for travel expenses incurred in carrying out the duties of the council in accordance with RCW 43.03.050 and 43.03.060 . (10)(a) The council shall convene an early achievers review subcommittee to provide feedback and guidance on strategies to improve the quality of instruction and environment for early learning and provide input and recommendations on the implementation and refinement of the early achievers program. The subcommittee shall at a minimum provide feedback and guidance to the department and the council on the following: (i) Adequacy of data collection procedures; (ii) Coaching and technical assistance standards; (iii) Progress in reducing barriers to participation for low-income providers and providers from diverse cultural backgrounds, including a review of the early achievers program's rating tools, quality standard areas, and components, and how they are applied; (iv) Strategies in response to data on the effectiveness of early achievers program standards in relation to providers and children from diverse cultural backgrounds; (v) Status of the life circumstance exemption protocols; (vi) Analysis of early achievers program data trends; and (vii) Other relevant early learning data including progress in serving students with disabilities ages birth to five and least restrictive environment data. (b) The subcommittee must include consideration of cultural linguistic responsiveness when analyzing the areas for review required by (a) of this subsection. (c) The subcommittee shall include representatives from child care centers, family child care, the early childhood education and assistance program, contractors for early achievers program technical assistance and coaching, tribal governments, the organization responsible for conducting early achievers program ratings, and parents of children participating in early learning programs, including working connections child care and early childhood education and assistance programs. The subcommittee shall include representatives from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. (11)(a) The council shall convene a temporary licensing subcommittee to provide feedback and recommendations on improvement to the statewide licensing process. (b) Members of the subcommittee must include two representatives of the department, two child care providers, and two parents of children in child care. One child care provider and one parent representative must reside east of the crest of the Cascade mountains and one child care provider and one parent representative must reside west of the crest of the Cascade mountains. (c) The subcommittee shall: (i) Examine strategies to increase the number of licensed child care providers in the state, including meeting with prospective licensees to explain the licensure requirements and inspect and provide feedback on the physical space that is contemplated for licensure; (ii) Develop model policies for licensed child care providers to implement licensing standards including, but not limited to, completing the child care and early learning licensing guidebook, to be made available to support providers with compliance; and (iii) Develop recommendations regarding incentives and financial supports to help prospective providers navigate the licensing process. (d) The subcommittee shall provide feedback and recommendations to the department of children, youth, and families pursuant to this subsection (11) by December 1, 2022. (12) The department shall provide staff support to the council.
RCW 43.216.375 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 216 / Section 375
RCW 43.216.375: Negotiated rule making—Statewide unit of family child care licensees—Antitrust immunity, intent.
Status: in_force

(1) Solely for the purposes of negotiated rule making pursuant to RCW 34.05.310 (2)(a) and * 43.215.350 , a statewide unit of all family child care licensees is appropriate. As of June 7, 2006, the exclusive representative of family child care licensees in the statewide unit shall be the representative selected as the majority representative in the election held under the directive of the governor to the secretary of the department of social and health services, dated September 16, 2005. If family child care licensees seek to select a different representative thereafter, the family child care licensees may request that the American arbitration association conduct an election and certify the results of the election. (2) In enacting this section, the legislature intends to provide state action immunity under federal and state antitrust laws for the joint activities of family child care licensees and their exclusive representative to the extent such activities are authorized by this chapter.
RCW 43.216.380 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 216 / Section 380
RCW 43.216.380: Minimum licensing requirements—Window blind pull cords.
Status: in_force

(1) Minimum licensing requirements under this chapter shall include a prohibition on the use of window blinds or other window coverings with pull cords or inner cords capable of forming a loop and posing a risk of strangulation to young children. Window blinds and other coverings that have been manufactured or properly retrofitted in a manner that eliminates the formation of loops posing a risk of strangulation are not prohibited under this section. (2) When developing and periodically reviewing minimum licensing requirements related to safety of the premises, the secretary shall consult and give serious consideration to publications of the United States consumer product safety commission. (3) The department may provide information as available regarding reduced cost or no-cost options for retrofitting or replacing unsafe window blinds and window coverings.
RCW 43.216.572 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 216 / Section 572
RCW 43.216.572: Early intervention services—Infants and toddlers with disabilities—Interagency coordinating council—Conditions and limitations.
Status: in_force

For the purposes of implementing this chapter, the governor shall appoint a state interagency coordinating council for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families and ensure that state agencies involved in the provision of, or payment for, early intervention services to infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families shall coordinate and collaborate in the planning and delivery of such services. No state or local agency currently providing early intervention services to infants and toddlers with disabilities may use funds appropriated for early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities to supplant funds from other sources. All state and local agencies shall ensure that the implementation of this chapter will not cause any interruption in existing early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to permit the restriction or reduction of eligibility under Title V of the Social Security Act, P.L. 90-248, relating to maternal and child health or Title XIX of the Social Security Act, P.L. 89-97, relating to medicaid for infants and toddlers with disabilities.
RCW 43.330.486 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 330 / Section 486
RCW 43.330.486: Low-income home rehabilitation revolving loan program—Contracts with rehabilitation agencies—Reports.
Status: in_force

(1) The department must contract with rehabilitation agencies to provide home rehabilitation to participating homeowners. Preference must be given to local agencies delivering programs and services with similar eligibility criteria. (2) Any rehabilitation agency may charge participating homeowners an administrative fee of no more than seven percent of the home rehabilitation loan amount. The administrative fee must become a component of the total loan amount to be repaid by the participating homeowner. (3) Any rehabilitation agency receiving funding under this section must report to the department at least quarterly, or in alignment with federal reporting, whichever is the greater frequency, the project costs and the number of homes repaired or rehabilitated. The director must review the accuracy of these reports.
RCW 43.100A.303 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 100A / Section 303
RCW 43.100A.303: Pledge and promise—Remedies.
Status: in_force

(1) Bonds issued under RCW 43.100A.300 shall state that they are a general obligation of the state of Washington, shall pledge the full faith and credit of the state to the payment of the principal thereof and the interest thereon, and shall contain an unconditional promise to pay the principal and interest as the same shall become due. (2) The owner and holder of each of the bonds or the trustee for the owner and holder of any of the bonds may by mandamus or other appropriate proceeding require the transfer and payment of funds as directed in this section.
RCW 43.250.170 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 250 / Section 170
RCW 43.250.170: Separately managed state treasurer's service account.
Status: in_force

A separately managed state treasurer's service account is created in the custody of the state treasurer. The account is not subject to appropriation or allotment procedures. All moneys received from separately managed accounts for payment to the office of the state treasurer must be deposited into the separately managed state treasurer's service account. Expenditures from the separately managed state treasurer's service account may be made solely for the operation of the separately managed accounts investment program. Only the treasurer or the treasurer's designee may authorize expenditures from the separately managed state treasurer's service account.
RCW 43.270.040 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 270 / Section 040
RCW 43.270.040: Coordinated strategies.
Status: in_force

This grant program will be available to communities of any geographic size but will encourage and reward communities which develop coordinated or complimentary strategies within geographic areas such as county areas or groups of county areas which correspond to units of government with significant responsibilities in the area of substance abuse, existing coalitions, or other entities important to the success of a community's strategy against substance abuse.
RCW 43.56.010 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 56 / Section 010
RCW 43.56.010: Appointment of qualified persons.
Status: in_force

(1) The governor shall appoint three qualified persons to serve on the Washington state uniform law commission for the promotion of uniformity of legislation in the United States. A qualified person is a resident of the state of Washington and a member of the state bar association of this or another state, who is or has been a judge, law professor, legislator, or practicing attorney. (2) In addition to the members of the commission appointed pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, the governor may appoint to the commission any person who has served at least twenty years on the commission and who is a life member in the national conference of commissioners on uniform state laws or its successor. (3) In addition to the members of the commission appointed pursuant to subsections (1) and (2) of this section, the code reviser shall serve as a member of the commission.The intent and purpose of this chapter is to promote the continued improvement of the relationship between public employers and their employees by providing a uniform basis for implementing the right of public employees to join labor organizations of their own choosing and to be represented by such organizations in matters concerning their employment relations with public employers.
RCW 43.79.140 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 79 / Section 140
RCW 43.79.140: Washington State University—Moneys paid into general fund for support of.
Status: in_force

There shall be paid into the state general fund for the support of Washington State University the following moneys: (1) — All moneys collected from the lease or rental of lands set apart by the enabling act or otherwise for the agricultural college and school of science; (2) — All interest or income arising from the proceeds of the sale of any of such lands; (3) — All moneys received or collected as interest on deferred payments on contracts for the sale of such lands.
RCW 43.31.512 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 31 / Section 512
RCW 43.31.512: Child care facility fund committee—Loans or grants to individuals, businesses, or organizations.
Status: in_force

The child care facility fund committee shall award loan guarantees, loans or grants to those persons, businesses, or organizations meeting the minimum standards set forth in this chapter who will best serve the intent of the chapter to increase the availability of high quality, affordable child care in Washington state. The committee shall promulgate rules regarding the application for and disbursement of loan guarantees, loans, or grants from the fund, including loan terms and repayment procedures. At a minimum, such rules shall require an applicant to submit a plan which includes a detailed description of: (1) The need for a new or improved child care facility in the area served by the applicant; (2) The steps the applicant will take to serve a reasonable number of children with disabilities, sick children, infants, children requiring nighttime or weekend care, or children whose costs of care are subsidized by government; (3) Why financial assistance from the state is needed to start or improve the child care facility; (4) How the guaranteed loan, loan, or grant will be used, and how such uses will meet the described need; (5) The child care services to be available at the facility and the capacity of the applicant to provide those services; and (6) The financial status of the applicant, including other resources available to the applicant which will ensure the continued viability of the facility and the availability of its described services. Recipients shall annually for two years following the receipt of the loan guarantee, loan, or grant, submit to the child care facility fund committee a report on the facility and how it is meeting the child care needs for which it was intended.
RCW 43.07.040 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 07 / Section 040
RCW 43.07.040: Custodian of state records.
Status: in_force

The secretary of state is charged with the custody: (1) Of all acts and resolutions passed by the legislature; (2) Of the journals of the legislature; (3) Of the seal of the state; (4) Of all books, records, deeds, parchments, maps, and papers required to be kept on deposit in his or her office pursuant to law; (5) Of the enrolled copy of the Constitution.
RCW 43.133.030 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 133 / Section 030
RCW 43.133.030: Sunrise notes—Procedure.
Status: in_force

The office of financial management and the department of commerce shall, in cooperation with appropriate legislative committees and legislative staff, establish a procedure for the provision of sunrise notes on the expected impact of bills and resolutions that authorize the creation of new boards and new types of special purpose districts.
RCW 43.330.425 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 330 / Section 425
RCW 43.330.425: Advisory committee on permanent supportive housing.
Status: in_force

(1) An advisory committee on permanent supportive housing is established with members as provided in this section. (a) One representative of the aging and long-term support administration at the department of social and health services; (b) One representative of the health care authority; (c) One representative of the developmental disabilities administration; (d) One representative from a city that invests resources in permanent supportive housing; (e) One representative from a city with the largest number of chronically homeless households; (f) One representative from a county that invests resources in permanent supportive housing; (g) One representative from a county with the largest number of chronically homeless households; (h) One representative of public housing authorities as created under chapter 35.82 RCW; (i) One permanent supportive housing service provider; (j) One permanent supportive housing developer; (k) One permanent supportive housing building operator; (l) One permanent supportive housing resident; (m) One permanent supportive housing researcher; (n) One permanent supportive housing advocate; (o) One representative from the behavioral health sector; (p) One representative of the health care sector; and (q) One representative of each of the following permanent supportive housing populations: (i) Single adults; (ii) Older adults over age 55; (iii) Families with children; (iv) The American Indian and Alaska Native community; (v) Communities of color; (vi) The LGBTQIA+ community; (vii) The intellectual and developmental disability community; (viii) The mental health disability community; (ix) The substance use disorder community; and (x) The physical disability community. (2)(a) The members of the advisory committee shall be appointed by the director. Members must reflect the geographic, racial, and ethnic diversity of the state of Washington and be inclusive of historically marginalized communities. (b) The members of the advisory committee must be reimbursed for travel expenses as provided in RCW 43.03.050 and 43.03.060 . (3) The advisory committee shall: (a) Select a chair from among its membership; (b) Meet quarterly; (c) Provide guidance and recommendations on the administration of permanent supportive housing resources managed by the department, including recommendations to ensure alignment of capital, services, and operating investments and fidelity with the provision of permanent supportive housing as defined in RCW 36.70A.030 ; and (d) Until December 31, 2027, report its recommendations to enhance the coordination and availability of permanent supportive housing to the appropriate committees of the legislature and the governor by December 1st of each year. (4) The director and the director of the office of supportive housing shall regularly consult with the advisory committee. The department shall convene the advisory committee for its initial meeting no later than November 1, 2022. The advisory committee shall be staffed by the department.
RCW 43.23.290 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 23 / Section 290
RCW 43.23.290: Food assistance programs—Use for essential nonfood items.
Status: in_force

(1) The director of the department may exercise powers and duties with respect to the administration of food assistance programs in the department. It is the intent of the legislature in administering the food assistance programs transferred to the department by chapter 68, Laws of 2010, that programs continue to be provided through community-based organizations. It is the intent of the legislature that in accepting the administration of food assistance programs, the department's core programs administered by the department by July 1, 2010, not be impacted. (2) The director of the department may adopt rules necessary to implement the food assistance programs. (3) The director of the department may enter into contracts and agreements to implement food assistance programs, including contracts and agreements with the United States department of agriculture, to implement federal food assistance programs. (4) The department may not restrict the amount of food assistance program funding provided to food banks that may be used for essential nonfood items, including diapers, feminine products, and hygiene products, to less than 25 percent of total funding.
RCW 43.08.064 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 08 / Section 064
RCW 43.08.064: Lost or destroyed warrants, instruments, or other evidence of indebtedness—Issuing officer to issue duplicate.
Status: in_force

In case of the loss or destruction of a state warrant for the payment of money, or any bond or other instrument or evidence of indebtedness, issued by any state officer, or agency, such officer, or such agency through its appropriate officer may issue or cause to be issued a duplicate in lieu thereof, in all respects and for the same amount as the original. The duplicate instrument so issued shall be subject in all other respects to the same provisions of law as the original instrument.
RCW 43.52A.020 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 52A / Section 020
RCW 43.52A.020: Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter: (1) The term "the act" means the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act. (2) The term "council" means the Pacific Northwest Electric Power and Conservation Planning Council.
RCW 43.08.020 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 08 / Section 020
RCW 43.08.020: Residence—Bond—Oath.
Status: in_force

The state treasurer shall reside and keep his or her office at the seat of government. Before entering upon his or her duties, he or she shall execute and deliver to the secretary of state a bond to the state in a sum of not less than five hundred thousand dollars, to be approved by the secretary of state and one of the justices of the supreme court, conditioned to pay all moneys at such times as required by law, and for the faithful performance of all duties required of him or her by law. He or she shall take an oath of office, to be indorsed on his or her commission, and file a copy thereof, together with the bond, in the office of the secretary of state.The administration of this title is vested in the *liquor control board, constituted under this title.There are hereby established in the employment security department two coordinate divisions to be known as the unemployment compensation division, and the Washington state employment service division, each of which shall be administered by a full time salaried supervisor who shall be an assistant to the commissioner and shall be appointed by him or her. Each division shall be responsible to the commissioner for the dispatch of its distinctive functions. Each division shall be a separate administrative unit with respect to personnel, budget, and duties, except insofar as the commissioner may find that such separation is impracticable. It is hereby further provided that the governor in his or her discretion may delegate any or all of the organization, administration, and functions of the said Washington state employment service division to any federal agency.
RCW 43.22.310 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 22 / Section 310
RCW 43.22.310: Access to plants—Penalty for refusal.
Status: in_force

The director or any employee of the department of labor and industries may enter any factory, mill, office, workshop, or public or private works at any time for the purpose of gathering facts and statistics as provided by this chapter, and examine into the methods of protection from danger to employees, and the sanitary conditions in and around such buildings and places and make a record thereof, and any owner or occupant of such factory, mill, office or workshop, or public or private works, or his or her agent who refuses to allow an inspector or employee of the department to enter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not to exceed ninety days.
RCW 43.06.475 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 06 / Section 475
RCW 43.06.475: Timber harvest excise tax agreements.
Status: in_force

(1) The governor may enter into timber harvest excise tax agreements concerning the harvest of timber. All timber harvest excise tax agreements must meet the requirements for timber harvest excise tax agreements under this section. The terms of a timber harvest excise tax agreement are not effective unless the agreement is authorized in RCW 43.06.480 . (2) Timber harvest excise tax agreements shall be in regard to timber harvests on fee land within the exterior boundaries of the reservation of the Indian tribe and are not in regard to timber harvests on trust land or land owned by the tribe within the exterior boundaries of the reservation. (3) The agreement must provide that the tribal tax shall be credited against the state and county taxes imposed under RCW 84.33.041 and 84.33.051 . (4) Tribal ordinances for timber harvest excise taxation, or other authorizing tribal laws, which implement the timber harvest excise tax agreement with the state, must incorporate or contain provisions identical to chapter 84.33 RCW that relate to the tax rates and measures, such as stumpage values. (5) Timber harvest excise tax agreements must be for renewable periods of no more than eight years. (6) Timber harvest excise tax agreements must include provisions for compliance, such as inspection procedures, recordkeeping, and audit requirements. (7) Tax revenue retained by the tribe must be used for essential government services. Use of tax revenue for subsidization of timber harvesters is prohibited. (8) The timber harvest excise tax agreement may include provisions to resolve disputes using a nonjudicial process, such as mediation. (9) The governor may delegate the power to negotiate the timber harvest excise tax agreements to the department of revenue. (10) Information received by the state or open to state review under the terms of a timber harvest excise tax agreement is subject to the provisions of RCW 82.32.330 . The department of revenue may enter into an information sharing agreement with the tribe to facilitate sharing information to improve tax collection. (11) The timber harvest excise tax agreement must include dispute resolution procedures, contract termination procedures, and provisions delineating the respective roles and responsibilities of the tribe and the department of revenue. (12) The timber harvest excise tax agreement must include provisions to require taxpayers to submit information that may be required by the department of revenue or tribe. (13) For the purposes of this section: (a) "Essential government services" means services such as forestland management; protection, enhancement, regulation, and stewardship of forested land; land consolidation; tribal administration; public facilities; fire; police; public health; education; job services; sewer; water; environmental and land use; transportation; utility services; and public facilities serving economic development purposes as those terms are defined in *RCW 82.14.370 (3)(c); (b) "Forestland" has the same meaning as in RCW 84.33.035 ; (c) "Harvester" has the same meaning as in RCW 84.33.035 ; (d) "Indian tribe" or "tribe" means a federally recognized Indian tribe located within the geographical boundaries of the state of Washington; and (e) "Timber" has the same meaning as in RCW 84.33.035 .
RCW 43.17.130 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 17 / Section 130
RCW 43.17.130: Designation of agency to carry out federal social security disability program—Appointment of personnel.
Status: in_force

The state agency entering into such agreement shall appoint such professional personnel and other assistants and employees as may be reasonably necessary to carry out the provisions of RCW 43.17.120 and 43.17.130 .
RCW 43.60A.020 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 60A / Section 020
RCW 43.60A.020: Department created—Powers, duties, and functions.
Status: in_force

There is hereby created a department of state government to be known as the department of veterans affairs. Powers, duties, and functions to be vested in the department shall include, but not be limited to, all those powers, duties, and functions involving cooperation with other governmental units, such as cities and counties, or with the federal government, in particular those concerned with participation in federal grants-in-aid programs relating to veterans and veteran affairs.
RCW 43.79.496 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 79 / Section 496
RCW 43.79.496: Transfers of budget stabilization account deposits to the general fund.
Status: in_force

(1) By June 30, 2015, the treasurer shall transfer into the state general fund the entire budget stabilization account deposit for the 2013-2015 fiscal biennium that is attributable to extraordinary revenue growth, not to exceed fifty million dollars. (2) During the 2017-2019 fiscal biennium, the treasurer shall transfer into the state general fund the entire budget stabilization account deposit for the 2017-2019 fiscal biennium that is attributable to extraordinary revenue growth, not to exceed one billion seventy-eight million dollars. (3) For purposes of RCW 43.88.055 (4), the transfers in this section do not alter the requirement to balance in ensuing biennia.
RCW 43.216.162 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 216 / Section 162
RCW 43.216.162: Home visitation—High-potency synthetic opioids substance use disorder.
Status: reserved

(1) Home visiting established by RCW 43.216.130 has been shown to enhance child development and well-being by reducing the incidence of child abuse and neglect, promoting connection to community-based supports, and increasing school readiness for young children and their families. (2) Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, the department shall enter into targeted contracts with existing home visiting programs established by RCW 43.216.130 in locales with the historically highest rates of child welfare screened-in intake to serve families. (3) Targeted contracted home visiting slots for families experiencing high-potency synthetic opioid-related substance use disorder promotes expedited access to supports that enhance strengthened parenting skills and allows home visiting providers to have predictable funding. Any targeted contracted slots the department creates under this section must meet the requirements as provided for in chapter 328, Laws of 2024. (4) Only existing home visiting providers are eligible to be awarded targeted contracted slots. The targeted contracted slots are reserved for programs in locales with the historically highest rates of child welfare screened-in intakes. (5) The department shall provide training specific to substance use disorders for the home visiting providers selected for this program. (6) Families referred to home visiting services via the process established in subsection (8) of this section must be contacted by the contracted program within seven days of referral. (7) The department shall award the contracted slots via a competitive process. The department shall pay providers for each targeted contracted slot using the rate provided to existing home visiting providers. (8) Eligible families shall be referred to the targeted contracted slots through a referral process developed by the department. The referral process shall include referrals from the department's child welfare staff as well as community organizations working with families meeting the criteria established in subsection (9) of this section. (9) Priority for targeted contracted home visiting slots shall be given to: (a) Families with child protective services open cases; (b) Families with family assessment response open cases; and (c) Families with family voluntary services open cases.
RCW 43.10.010 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 010
RCW 43.10.010: Qualifications—Oath—Bond.
Status: in_force

No person shall be eligible to be attorney general unless he or she is a qualified practitioner of the supreme court of this state. Before entering upon the duties of his or her office, any person elected or appointed attorney general shall take, subscribe, and file the oath of office as required by law; take, subscribe, and file with the secretary of state an oath to comply with the provisions of RCW 43.10.115 ; and execute and file with the secretary of state, a bond to the state, in the sum of five thousand dollars, with sureties to be approved by the governor, conditioned for the faithful performance of his or her duties and the paying over of all moneys, as provided by law.
RCW 43.99U.902 — Washington Code / Title 43 / Chapter 99U / Section 902
RCW 43.99U.902: Effective date—2008 c 179.
Status: in_force

See RCW 28A.527.902 .