RCW 1.08.001 Statute law committee created—Membership. There is created a permanent statute law committee consisting of eleven members as follows: (1) The secretary of the senate, ex officio; (2) Two members of the senate, one from each of the two largest caucuses in the senate, appointed by the president of the senate; (3) The chief […]
RCW 1.08.003 Terms of members—Filling vacancies. The term of the member of the committee appointed by the State Bar Association, shall be for two years. The term of any ex officio member expires upon expiration of tenure of the position by virtue of which he or she is a member of the committee. The remaining […]
RCW 1.08.005 Compensation and expenses of members. For attendance at meetings of the committee or in attending to such other business of the committee as may be authorized thereby, each legislative member of the committee shall receive the per diem and travel allowances provided for such members by RCW 44.04.120, and each other member shall […]
RCW 1.08.007 Committee meetings. The committee shall from time to time elect a chair from among its members and adopt rules to govern its procedures. Four members of the committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business but no proceeding of the committee shall be valid unless carried by the vote of […]
RCW 1.08.011 Employment of code reviser and staff. The committee shall employ on behalf of the state and from time to time fix the compensation of a competent code reviser, with power to terminate any such employment at any time. The committee shall also employ on behalf of the state and fix the compensation of […]
RCW 1.08.013 Code reviser defined. Code reviser shall mean any lawyer or law publisher employing competent lawyers, each deemed by the committee to be qualified to compile the statutory law of the state of Washington as enacted by the legislature into a code or compilation of laws by title, chapter and section, without substantive change […]
RCW 1.08.015 Codification and revision of laws—Scope of revision. Subject to such general policies as may be promulgated by the committee and to the general supervision of the committee, the reviser shall: (1) Codify for consolidation into the Revised Code of Washington all laws of a general and permanent nature heretofore or hereafter enacted by […]
RCW 1.08.016 Code correction—Committee orders. The committee may at any time by order correct any section or portion of the code in any of the respects enumerated in RCW 1.08.015. Orders shall be numbered consecutively and signed by the committee chair and each order shall be followed by an explanatory note reciting the reason therefor. […]
RCW 1.08.017 Code reviser may omit certain provisions of legislative acts from code; may omit annotations after ten years. (1) The reviser may omit from the code all titles to acts, enacting and repealing clauses, preambles, declarations of emergency, severability, and validity and construction sections unless, in a particular instance, it may be necessary to […]
RCW 1.08.020 Code index. The reviser, as soon as practicable, shall compile and thereafter maintain a comprehensive index and from time to time prepare for publication supplements thereto. [ 1953 c 257 § 7.]
RCW 1.08.021 Historical records. The reviser shall prepare and maintain full historical records showing the enactment, amendment, revision, supersession, and repeal of the various sections of the revised code. [ 1951 c 157 § 9.]
RCW 1.08.023 Annotations. The reviser may prepare and maintain complete annotations of court decisions construing the statutes of this state. [ 1951 c 157 § 10.]
RCW 1.08.024 Inclusion in code of rules of court. The committee may provide for inclusion in the published sets of the code the rules of court promulgated by the supreme court. [ 1953 c 257 § 8.]
RCW 1.08.025 Improvement of statutes. The committee, or the reviser with the approval of the committee, shall from time to time make written recommendations to the legislature concerning deficiencies, conflicts, or obsolete provisions in, and need for reorganization or revision of, the statutes, and shall prepare for submission to the legislature, legislation for the correction […]
RCW 1.08.026 Examination of code—Hearings—Recommendations to legislature. The committee also shall examine the revised code and from time to time submit to the legislature proposals for enactment of the several titles, chapters and sections thereof, to the end that, as expeditiously as possible, the revised code, and each part thereof, shall constitute conclusive, rather than […]
RCW 1.08.027 Bill drafting service. The reviser shall be in charge of and shall at all times maintain an expert bill drafting service for the use and benefit of the legislature, its committees and its members. Prior to any session thereof, the legislature shall provide quarters convenient to both houses and shall augment the reviser’s […]
RCW 1.08.028 Opinions as to validity or constitutionality. Neither the reviser nor any member of his or her staff shall be required to furnish any written opinion as to the validity or constitutionality of any proposed legislation, which he or she may be requested to draft or prepare, nor shall any member of the committee […]
RCW 1.08.031 Information service to legislators. The reviser shall, to the extent reasonably feasible through available facilities and public sources of information, provide objective and factual information in writing to and upon request of any member of the legislature relative to any matter which is or may be the subject of or involved in, legislation. […]
RCW 1.08.033 Reviser’s office location. The department of public institutions shall provide suitable office and storage space and facilities for the reviser and his or her staff at Olympia, at a location convenient to the legislature and to the state law library. [ 2011 c 336 § 5; 1955 c 235 § 5; 1951 c […]
RCW 1.08.037 Publication of code—Specifications—Certificate of compliance. The committee shall from time to time formulate specifications relative to the format, size and style of type, paper stock, number of volumes, method and quality of binding, contents, indexing, and general scope and character of footnotes, and annotations, if any, for any publication for general use of […]
