BILL · 1997–98 SESSION
SB 5246: Public resources use
Making it a crime for public employees to use public facilities or resources to access patently offensive material.
Summary
- If any state or municipal officer or employee or his or her supervisor uses, or acquiesces to the use of, public facilities or resources, including the Internet or other electronic and telecommunications services, for the purpose of accessing patently offensive material, he or she may be charged with a misdemeanor. A Patently offensive material @ is defined.
From the Senate Bill Report (SB 5246), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗
Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
- IntroducedJan 20, 1997
- Out of committeestopped here
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Bob Oke (R-26)
- Introduced
- January 20, 1997 in the Senate
- Last action
- January 12, 1998
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Bob Oke (R-26)
8 co-sponsors (0 Democrats, 8 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.
History
The Legislature's online data doesn't include step-by-step history for sessions before 2001. Its final status is shown above, and the official bill page may have more.
SB 5246 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- SB 5246 (2025–26) Energy facility site eval.
- SB 5246 (2023–24) Supreme court fiscal notes
- SB 5246 (2021–22) Medicaid primary care reimb.
- SB 5246 (2019–20) Sunshine committee recs.
- SB 5246 (2017–18) Personal records/DEL access
- SB 5246 (2015–16) Death benefits/LEOFF, WSPRS
- SB 5246 (2013–14) Teacher and principal evals
- SB 5246 (2011–12) Driving record abstracts