ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5677
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
By Senate Business, Financial Services & Trade (originally sponsored by Senators Cortes, Frame, Riccelli, and Schoesler)
READ FIRST TIME 02/20/25.
AN ACT Relating to associate development organizations; and amending RCW 43.330.082 and 43.330.086 .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 43.330.082 and 2014 c 112 s 112 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)(( (a) )) Contracting associate development organizations must provide the department with measures of their performance and a summary of best practices shared and implemented by the contracting organizations. Annual reports must include the following information to show the contracting organization's impact on employment and overall changes in employment: Current employment and economic information for the community or regional area produced by the employment security department; the net change from the previous year's employment and economic information using data produced by the employment security department; other relevant information on the community or regional area; the amount of funds received by the contracting organization through its contract with the department; the amount of funds received by the contracting organization through all sources; demographic information that meet the standards for maintaining, collecting, and presenting federal data on race and ethnicity as described by the office of management and budget, statistical policy directive No. 15 as published on March 29, 2024, that provide common language for uniformity and comparability in the collection and use of race and ethnicity data; and the contracting organization's impact on employment through all funding sources. Annual reports may include the impact of the contracting organization on wages, exports, tax revenue, small business creation, foreign direct investment, business relocations, expansions, terminations, and capital investment. Data must be input into a common web-based business information system managed by the department. Specific measures, data standards, and data definitions must be developed in the contracting process between the department and the contracting organization every two years. (( Except as provided in (b) of this subsection, performance )) Performance measures should be consistent across regions to allow for statewide evaluation.