HB 1010 — Directing the department of ecology to submit an annual report to the legislature detailing the department's participation in interagency agreements.

H-1321.2SUBSTITUTEH-0449.1HOUSE HOUSE BILL 1010State of Washington65th Legislature2017 Regular SessionBy House Environment (originally sponsored by Representatives Shea, Taylor, Holy, Short, McCaslin, Pike, Haler, and Young)READYoungPrefiled FIRST12/05/16. TIME 02/09/17.AN ACT Relating to directing the department of ecology to submit an annual report to the legislature detailing the department's participation in interagency agreements;

Read first time 01/09/17.

Referred to Committee on Environment.AN ACT Relating to directing the department of ecology to submit an annual report to the legislature detailing the department's participation in interagency agreements;

Therefore, it is the intent of the legislature to require the department of ecology to maintaincreate aan listannual ofreport that details the department'sagency's participation in interagency agreements on its web site for the purposes of improving public understanding of the extent and implications of those agreements.Sec. 2.  RCW 43.21A.150 and 1970 ex.s.

On behalf of the department, the director is authorized to accept, receive, disburse, and administer grants or other funds or gifts from any source, including private individuals or agencies, the federal government, and other public agencies, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter.(2)(a) BeginningConsistent with RCW 43.01.036, beginning December 31,1, 2017, the director mustshall listsubmit ona report to the department'slegislature webby siteDecember information1st of each year regarding the current interagency agreements to which the department is a party or in which the department is a participant.(b) The listreport must identifyinclude eacha agreement,brief description of the typepurpose of each agreement, partiesthe commitments or obligations to which the agreement,agreement binds the effectivedepartment dateor of the agreement,state, and aan briefelectronic descriptionlink to the full text of the agreement.

The listreport must include all interagency agreements involving the department and other state agencies, local governments, special purpose districts, the federal government and federal government agencies, and the agencies of other states.(c) ForBeginning theDecember initial1, list,2018, the departmentreport mustmust:(i) byIdentify Decemberall 31,new 2017,interagency listagreements allthat grantthe agreementsdepartment andhas federalentered agreementsinto whereduring informationthe isyear readilysince extractablethe fromprevious report was submitted to the department'slegislature dataunder systems.this section;

Forand(ii) thoseIdentify dataall systemssubstantive that,modifications because of their age, require programming support to extractinteragency andagreements formatinvolving data for publishing to the internet, the department mustsince complete listing the requiredprevious informationreport accordingwas submitted to the followinglegislature schedule:(i)under Bythis Junesection 30, 2018, all contract, loan, and grantinclude agreements;(ii)a Bydescription Decemberof 31, 2018, all agreements pertaining to funds receivable for work performed by the department,purpose leases,of and nonfinancial interagency agreements.(d) Beginning December 1, 2018, the departmentmodifications must annually update the web site to include new interagency agreements that the department has entered into and mustwhether identify the agreementsmodifications thatalter haveany beenassociated updatedcommitments withinor theobligations.(d) past year.(e) For the purposes of this section, the term "interagency agreement" must be construed broadly and includes but is not limited to memoranda of understanding, grant contracts, and advisory or nonbinding agreements.(f)agreements, Forand purposesother ofworking thisarrangements section,involving thedepartment information posted on the department's web site is considered to function as a report to the legislature because the report acts as a mechanism of keepingecology thestaff legislatureor apprisedresources.--- of the department's interagency agreements.--- END ---