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 staff with such additional legal and clerical assistance as may be needed to carry out the bill drafting functions of the legislature and pay the cost of such additional staff. Such services shall be confidential and nonpartisan and no member of the bill drafting staff shall advocate for or against any legislative measure.
[ 1953 c 257 § 6; 1951 c 157 § 12.]
NOTES:
Initiative measures, review by code reviser: RCW 29A.72.020.
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.