2005 Washington Revised Code RCW 43.88.500: State boards, commissions, councils, and committees — Legislative finding and declaration.

The legislature finds that members of boards, commissions, councils, and committees in state government make a valuable contribution to the public welfare.

     Nevertheless, the legislature also finds that the continued proliferation of both statutory and nonstatutory groups of this nature without effective, periodic review of existing groups can result in wasteful duplication of effort, fragmentation of administrative authority, lack of accountability, plus an excessive and frequently hidden financial burden on the state.

     The legislature further finds that effective legislative oversight and review of boards, commissions, councils, and committees is frustrated by a lack of current and reliable information on the status and activities of such groups.

     The legislature declares that legislative oversight and overall accountability in state government can be significantly improved by creating in the office of financial management a central clearinghouse for information on boards, commissions, councils, and committees.

[1979 c 151 § 142; 1977 c 23 § 1.]

Termination review: RCW 43.41.220.