RCW 43.41.030 Purpose. The legislature finds that the need for long-range state program planning and for the short-range planning carried on through the budget process, complement each other. The biennial budget submitted to the legislature must be considered in the light of the longer-range plans and goals of the state. The effectiveness of the short-range […]
RCW 43.41.040 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context indicates otherwise: (1) “Office” means the office of financial management. (2) “Director” means the director of financial management. (3) “Agency” means and includes every state agency, office, officer, board, commission, department, state institution, or state institution of higher education, which includes all state universities, […]
RCW 43.41.050 Office of financial management created—Transfer of powers, duties, and functions. There is created in the office of the governor, the office of financial management which shall be composed of the present central budget agency and the state planning, program management, and population and research divisions of the present *planning and community affairs agency. […]
RCW 43.41.060 Director—Appointment—Salary—Vacancy—Delegation of powers and duties. The executive head of the office of financial management shall be the director, who shall be appointed by the governor with the consent of the senate, and who shall serve at the pleasure of the governor. He or she shall be paid a salary to be fixed by […]
RCW 43.41.070 Personnel. The director shall have the power to employ such personnel as may be necessary for the general administration of the office: PROVIDED, That, except as elsewhere specified in this chapter, such employment is in accordance with the rules of the state civil service law, chapter 41.06 RCW. [ 1969 ex.s. c 239 […]
RCW 43.41.080 Deputy and assistant directors. The director may appoint such deputy directors and assistant directors as shall be needed to administer the office of financial management. The officers appointed under this section and exempt from the provisions of the state civil service law by the terms of RCW 41.06.075, shall be paid salaries to […]
RCW 43.41.100 Director’s powers and duties. The director of financial management shall: (1) Supervise and administer the activities of the office of financial management. (2) Exercise all the powers and perform all the duties prescribed by law with respect to the administration of the state budget and accounting system. (3) Advise the governor and the […]
RCW 43.41.102 Director—Contract for collection and tabulation of census block statistics. Subject to a specific appropriation for that purpose, the director of financial management is hereby authorized and directed to contract with the United States bureau of census for collection and tabulation of block statistics in any or all cities and towns. [ 1979 c […]
RCW 43.41.104 Settlement and payment of accounts—Duty to require. Upon receipt of information from the state auditor as provided in *RCW 43.09.050(5) as now or hereafter amended, the director of financial management shall require all persons who have received any moneys belonging to the state and have not accounted therefor, to settle their accounts and […]
RCW 43.41.106 Settlement and payment of accounts—Authority to require testimony and evidence. The director of financial management may, in his or her discretion, require any person presenting an account for settlement to be sworn before him or her, and to answer, orally or in writing, as to any facts relating to it. [ 2009 c […]
RCW 43.41.109 “Undue hardship”—Defined by rule. The director of the office of financial management shall by rule establish a definition of “undue hardship” for the purposes of RCW 1.16.050. [ 2014 c 168 § 2.]
RCW 43.41.110 Powers and duties of office of financial management. The office of financial management shall: (1) Provide technical assistance to the governor and the legislature in identifying needs and in planning to meet those needs through state programs and a plan for expenditures. (2) Perform the comprehensive planning functions and processes necessary or advisable […]
RCW 43.41.113 Personnel policy and application of civil service laws. (1) The office of financial management shall direct and supervise the personnel policy and application of the civil service laws, chapter 41.06 RCW. (2) The director or the director’s designee has the authority and shall perform the functions as prescribed in chapter 41.06 RCW, or […]
RCW 43.41.120 Advisory or coordinating councils. The director or the governor may establish such additional advisory or coordinating councils as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. Members of such councils shall serve at the pleasure of the governor. They shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be reimbursed […]
RCW 43.41.160 State health care cost containment policies. (1) It is the purpose of this section to ensure implementation and coordination of chapter 70.14 RCW as well as other legislative and executive policies designed to contain the cost of health care that is purchased or provided by the state. In order to achieve that purpose, […]
RCW 43.41.170 Budgeting process—Agencies implementing energy conservation to retain cost savings. The office of financial management shall ensure that to the extent possible the budget process shall allow state agencies implementing energy conservation to retain the resulting cost savings for other purposes, including further energy conservation. [ 1989 c 11 § 15; 1986 c 325 […]
RCW 43.41.180 Electronic funds and information transfer—State agency use. (1) The office of financial management is authorized to approve the use of electronic and other technological means to transfer both funds and information whenever economically feasible, to eliminate paper documentation wherever possible, and to provide greater fiscal responsibility. This authorization includes but is not limited […]
RCW 43.41.260 Monitoring enrollee level in basic health plan and medicaid caseload of children—Funding levels adjustment. The health care authority and the office of financial management shall together monitor the enrollee level in the basic health plan and the medicaid caseload of children. The office of financial management shall adjust the funding levels by interagency […]
RCW 43.41.270 Natural resource-related and environmentally based grant and loan programs—Administration and monitoring assistance. (1) The office of financial management shall assist natural resource-related agencies in developing outcome-focused performance measures for administering natural resource-related and environmentally based grant and loan programs. These performance measures are to be used in determining grant eligibility, for program management […]
RCW 43.41.275 State agency employment—Disability employment—Reporting requirements. (1) By January 31st of each year, state agencies employing one hundred or more people must submit the report described in subsection (2) of this section to the human resources director, with copies to the director of the department of social and health services’ division of vocational rehabilitation […]
