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CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1606 Chapter 64, Laws of 2025 69TH LEGISLATURE 2025 REGULAR SESSION STATE EMPLOYEE ACCESS TO PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS EFFECTIVE DATE: July 27, 2025 Passed by the House March 3, 2025 Yeas 97 Nays 0 LAURIE JINKINS Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 7, 2025 Yeas 49 Nays 0 DENNY HECK President of the Senate CERTIFICATE I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1606 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth. BERNARD DEAN Chief Clerk Chief Clerk Approved April 16, 2025 10:45 AM FILED April 16, 2025 BOB FERGUSON Governor of the State of Washington Secretary of State State of Washington SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1606 Passed Legislature - 2025 Regular Session State of Washington 69th Legislature 2025 Regular Session By House Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Engell, Bernbaum, Orcutt, Corry, Reeves, Waters, Ramel, Parshley, Reed, Ormsby, and Nance) READ FIRST TIME 02/14/25. AN ACT Relating to state employee access to peer-reviewed journals; creating new sections; and providing an expiration date. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON: NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that state agencies often do not have comprehensive electronic access to many peer-reviewed journals. As a result, state employees often must purchase specific manuscripts, outsource searches to other entities, or physically visit a university library in order to access many peer-reviewed journals. Locating a specific manuscript can take hours of staff time and is neither an efficient nor a cost-effective use of state resources. Other states have created statewide collectives for providing access to peer-reviewed journals, resulting in both increased access to peer-reviewed journals as well as significant cost savings. In light of the benefits that other states have experienced in connection with statewide subscriptions to peer-reviewed journals, the legislature seeks to learn whether such a subscription model would be beneficial in Washington. NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. (1) The Washington state institute for public policy is directed to conduct a study that addresses, at a minimum, potential funding, organizational structure, and policy mechanisms that would provide state employees with electronic access to peer-reviewed journals. For the purposes of this study, "peer-reviewed journal" means any academic, scholarly, or scientific peer-reviewed journal. (2) The study must be completed by June 30, 2026, and submitted in accordance with RCW 43.01.036 to the standing committees of the house of representatives and the senate with jurisdiction over environmental or natural resource issues. (3) This section expires June 30, 2027. Passed by the House March 3, 2025. Passed by the Senate April 7, 2025. Approved by the Governor April 16, 2025. Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 16, 2025.
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