RCW 1 . 08 .023
The reviser may prepare and maintain complete annotations of court decisions construing the state’s statutes.
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The reviser may prepare and maintain complete annotations of court decisions construing the state’s statutes.
The committee may include supreme court rules of court in the published sets of the code.
The committee must make written recommendations and prepare legislation to improve statutes, and proposed legislation must be annotated.
The committee must examine the revised code, periodically submit proposals for enactment to the legislature, include explanatory matter with each proposal, may hold hearings on proposals or related recommendations, and must submit approved proposals or recommendations to the chair of the house or senate judiciary commi
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 reviser, staff, and committee members are not required to give written constitutional or validity opinions for proposed legislation or submitted matters.
The reviser must provide objective, factual written information to requesting legislators when reasonably feasible.
The department of public institutions must provide office and storage space and facilities for the reviser and staff in Olympia.
The committee must set publication specifications for the revised code and supplements, and compliant publications may receive a certificate of compliance; noncompliant publications generally cannot be received as evidence of Washington laws.
The statute law committee must publish, sell, and distribute the Revised Code of Washington and supplements, and may republish or reprint the code or any part of it.
RCW 1.08.039 Publication, sale, and distribution of code and supplementsâContracts or other arrangements. The committee may enter into contracts or otherwise arrange for the publication and/or distribution, provided for in RCW 1.08.038,
RCW 1.08.0392 Publication, sale, and distribution of code and supplementsâStatute law committee publications account createdâPurposeâDisbursements. For the purposes of financing the production and sale of such of its publications as
The Revised Code of Washington in the specified certified or reprinted form is treated as official and serves as prima facie evidence of the laws it contains.
When the legislature amends or repeals laws, the act must include references to the affected law’s code numbers; the reviser must assign code numbers to certain newly enacted permanent and general laws.
The committee may loan code sets and supplemental materials for specified legislative, library, office, and news-service uses, and may exchange RCW copies for codes or compilations of other states.
Legislators may receive one digital-media set of the Revised Code of Washington without charge, and eligible recipients may receive free digital-media supplements during their legislative term.
Official digital copies of specified Washington legal publications must be kept available online for permanent public access, and the statute law committee must provide digital authentication for official digital publications when it would not interfere with public access.
RCW 1.08.110 Publication of Washington State RegisterâRule-making authority. The statute law committee, in addition to the other responsibilities enumerated in this chapter, shall publish the Washington State Register as created in RCW
The code reviser must compile and publish a quarterly report on state agency rule-making activity.
The code reviser may replace references to the department of transportation or the secretary of transportation when needed to harmonize and clarify RCW sections.
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