CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE BILL 1263
Chapter
155, Laws of 1993
53rd
Legislature
1993
Regular Session
STATE PATROL
PROMOTIONAL EXAMINATIONS
EFFECTIVE
DATE: 7/25/93
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Passed by the House February 22, 1993
Yeas 96
Nays 0
BRIAN
EBERSOLE
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate April 13, 1993
Yeas 46
Nays 0
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CERTIFICATE
I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of
Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the
attached is HOUSE BILL 1263 as passed by the House of Representatives
and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.
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JOEL
PRITCHARD
President of the Senate
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ALAN
THOMPSON
Chief Clerk
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Approved April 30, 1993 Place
Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
April 30, 1993 - 2:08 p.m.
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MIKE
LOWRY
Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington
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HOUSE
BILL 1263
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State
of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993
Regular Session
By
Read first time 01/20/93. Referred to Committee on State
Government.
Specifying testing for state patrol
promotion.
AN ACT Relating to Washington state patrol
examinations for promotion; and amending RCW 43.43.330.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1.
RCW 43.43.330 and 1985 c 4 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
Appropriate examinations shall be conducted for
the promotion of commissioned patrol officers to the rank of sergeant and
lieutenant. The examinations shall be prepared and conducted under the
supervision of the chief of the Washington state patrol, who shall cause at
least thirty days written notice thereof to be given to all patrol officers
eligible for such examinations. The written notice shall specify the
expected type of examination and relative weights to be assigned if a
combination of tests is to be used. Examinations shall be given once every
two years, or whenever the eligible list becomes exhausted as the case may be.
After the giving of each such examination a new eligible list shall be compiled
replacing any existing eligible list for such rank. Only grades attained in
the last examination given for a particular rank shall be used in compiling
each eligible list therefor. The chief, or in his discretion a committee of
three individuals appointed by him, shall prepare and conduct the examinations,
and thereafter grade and evaluate them in accordance with the following
provisions, or factors: For promotion to the rank of sergeant or
lieutenant((; (1) Service rating forty percent; (2) written examination
thirty percent; (3) oral examination and interview twenty percent; (4)
personnel record ten percent: For promotion to the rank of sergeant; (1)
Service rating fifty percent; (2) written examination fifty percent)),
the examination shall consist of one or more of the following components: (1)
Oral examination; (2) written examination; (3) service rating; (4) personnel
record; (5) assessment center or other valid tests that measures the skills,
knowledge, and qualities needed to perform these jobs. A cutoff score may be
set for each testing component that allows only those scoring above the cutoff
on one component to proceed to take a subsequent component.
Passed the House February 22, 1993.
Passed the Senate April 13, 1993.
Approved
by the Governor April 30, 1993.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 30,
1993.