SB6464 – Specifies that the four legislative members of the Building Code Council are voting members.
Prime Sponsor – Senator Wilson (R, 13th District, Moses Lake)
Current status – Read and passed out of the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections on January 17th. Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Local Government at 8:00 AM January 23rd.
Next step would be – Action by the committee.
Legislative tracking page for the bill.
HB2372 would do the same thing, through slightly different wording.
Summary –
The State Building Code Council currently consists of fifteen members appointed by the Governor, tw Representatives and two Senators, and a non-voting employee of the electrical division of the department of labor and industries. The bill specifies that the legislators are voting members. (I don’t know if there has has been some question about that, or if this is just tidying things up…)