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 to the authority to approve use of electronic means to transfer payroll, vendor payments, and benefit payments and acceptance of credit cards, debit cards, and other consumer debt instruments for payment of taxes, licenses, and fees. The office of financial management shall adopt rules under RCW 43.41.110(13) to specify the manner in which electronic and other technological means, including credit cards, are available to state agencies.
(2) No state agency may use electronic or other technological means, including credit cards, without specific continuing authorization from the office of financial management.
[ 1993 c 500 § 2.]
NOTES:
Finding—1993 c 500: "The legislature finds that:
(1) Effective and efficient management of the state's cash resources requires expeditious revenue collection, aggregation, and investment of available balances and timely payments;
(2) The use of credit cards, debit cards, and electronic transfers of funds and information are customary and economical business practices to improve cash management that the state should consider and use when appropriate;
(3) Statutory changes are necessary to aid the state in complying with the federal cash management improvement act of 1990; and
(4) The policies, procedures, and practices of cash management should be reviewed and revised as required to ensure that the state achieves the most effective cash management possible." [ 1993 c 500 § 1.]
Severability—1993 c 500: "If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [ 1993 c 500 § 12.]
Effective date—1993 c 500: "This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect July 1, 1993." [ 1993 c 500 § 13.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 43 - State Government—Executive
Chapter 43.41 - Office of Financial Management.
43.41.050 - Office of financial management created—Transfer of powers, duties, and functions.
43.41.060 - Director—Appointment—Salary—Vacancy—Delegation of powers and duties.
43.41.080 - Deputy and assistant directors.
43.41.100 - Director's powers and duties.
43.41.102 - Director—Contract for collection and tabulation of census block statistics.
43.41.104 - Settlement and payment of accounts—Duty to require.
43.41.106 - Settlement and payment of accounts—Authority to require testimony and evidence.
43.41.109 - "Undue hardship"—Defined by rule.
43.41.110 - Powers and duties of office of financial management.
43.41.113 - Personnel policy and application of civil service laws.
43.41.120 - Advisory or coordinating councils.
43.41.160 - State health care cost containment policies.
43.41.170 - Budgeting process—Agencies implementing energy conservation to retain cost savings.
43.41.180 - Electronic funds and information transfer—State agency use.
43.41.275 - State agency employment—Disability employment—Reporting requirements.
43.41.391 - K-20 network—Duty to govern and oversee technical design, implementation, and operation.
43.41.392 - K-20 operations cooperative—Maintained by office.
43.41.394 - Oversight of technical aspects of K-20 network.
43.41.399 - Education technology revolving fund.
43.41.400 - Education data center.
43.41.405 - K-12 data—Securing federal funds.
43.41.410 - State support for students at institutions of higher education—Information.
43.41.415 - Development of methods and protocols for measuring educational costs—Reports.
43.41.420 - Undergraduate and graduate educational costs—Reports to regents and trustees.
43.41.430 - Information technology investment pool—Information technology projects—Reports.
43.41.433 - Information technology investment revolving account.
43.41.435 - Enumeration data used for population estimates—Destruction.
43.41.450 - Office of financial management central service account.
43.41.455 - State agency office relocation pool account.
43.41.460 - Military recruitment program for veterans—Development—Report.
43.41.970 - Federal requirements for receipt of federal funds.