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 or removal of such deficiencies, conflicts or obsolete provisions, or to otherwise improve the form or substance of any portion of the statute law of this state as the public interest or the administration of the subject may require.
Such or similar projects may also be undertaken at the request of the legislature and legislative interim bodies and if such undertaking will not impede the other functions of the committee.
All such proposed legislation shall be annotated so as to show the purposes, reasons, and history thereof.
[ 1997 c 41 § 1; 1983 c 52 § 2; 1959 c 95 § 3; 1951 c 157 § 11.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 1.08 - Statute Law Committee (Code Reviser).
1.08.001 - Statute law committee created—Membership.
1.08.003 - Terms of members—Filling vacancies.
1.08.005 - Compensation and expenses of members.
1.08.007 - Committee meetings.
1.08.011 - Employment of code reviser and staff.
1.08.013 - Code reviser defined.
1.08.015 - Codification and revision of laws—Scope of revision.
1.08.016 - Code correction—Committee orders.
1.08.021 - Historical records.
1.08.024 - Inclusion in code of rules of court.
1.08.025 - Improvement of statutes.
1.08.026 - Examination of code—Hearings—Recommendations to legislature.
1.08.027 - Bill drafting service.
1.08.028 - Opinions as to validity or constitutionality.
1.08.031 - Information service to legislators.
1.08.033 - Reviser's office location.
1.08.037 - Publication of code—Specifications—Certificate of compliance.
1.08.038 - Publication, sale, and distribution of code and supplements—Reprints.
1.08.040 - Certification—Official code—Prima facie evidence.
1.08.050 - Amendment, repeal to include code numbers—Assignment of code numbers.
1.08.060 - Loans and exchanges of codes and supplements.
1.08.070 - Legislators to receive codes and supplements on digital media without charge.
1.08.110 - Publication of Washington State Register—Rule-making authority.
1.08.112 - Report on rule-making activity.
1.08.120 - Substitution of words designating department or secretary of transportation.