WAC 1-06-030   Description of central and field organization.  (1) The office of the code reviser is located in the Pritchard Building, Olympia, Washington, 98504.

     (2) The committee consists of eleven members. The secretary of the senate, the chief clerk of the house of representatives, the staff director of a nonpartisan professional committee, staff of the senate and the house of representatives, two members of the senate and the house of representatives, and one each appointed by the governor, the chief justice of the supreme court, and the Washington State Bar Association. The committee employs a code reviser, who serves as its secretary.

     (3) Among the primary responsibilities of the committee and the code reviser is the duty to periodically codify, index, and publish the Revised Code of Washington and to revise, correct, and harmonize the statutes by means of administrative or suggested legislative action as may be appropriate. The agency is also the official bill drafting arm of the legislature and its various committees, and prepares for the legislature all bills, memorials, resolutions, amendments, and conference reports, which activities are pursued on a nonpartisan, professional, lawyer-client, confidential basis under RCW 1.08.027, and RCW 1.08.028 prohibits the office of the code reviser from rendering written opinions concerning the constitutionality of any proposal. The agency also produces the legislative digest and history of bills and the daily status report. Immediately following each session of the legislature, the committee indexes and publishes the temporary edition of the session laws and subsequently publishes the permanent edition; it also responds to citizen's requests for copies of recently enacted laws. The committee administers the Administrative Procedure Act, serving as official repository for the rules of the various state agencies and the institutions of higher education, and creating and publishing the Washington Administrative Code.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 1.08.110, 34.05.385, 1.08.001, and Executive Order 97-2. 06-16-019, § 1-06-030, filed 7/24/06, effective 8/24/06. Statutory Authority: RCW 1.08.110, 34.05.356, 34.05.385, and 34.08.030. 00-18-001, § 1-06-030, filed 8/23/00, effective 12/31/00; Order 8, § 1-06-030, filed 9/25/74, effective 10/25/74.]