Adjustments are made to reflect each agency’s anticipated share of charges from the Department of Enterprise Services (DES) for campus rent, utilities, parking, and contracts; capital project surcharges; financing cost recovery; public and historic facilities; real estate services; risk management services; personnel service rates; the Perry Street child care center; small agency services; and the department’s enterprise applications. (General Fund - State, Legal Services Revolving Account - State)

Adjustments are made to reflect each agency’s anticipated share of charges from the Office of Financial Management (OFM) for statewide financial applications, One Washington, and other OFM central services. (General Fund - State, Legal Services Revolving Account - State, Public Service Revolving Account - State, other funds)

Funding is provided for the Office of the Attorney General (ATG) to diligently enforce tobacco escrow requirements under the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) with major tobacco companies. For each tobacco sales year, $14 million is placed in escrow under the MSA. The state will receive this escrow payment if it is determined in an arbitration that the state diligently enforced its obligations under the MSA for that year. Each arbitration typically addresses one sales year; the next arbitration will address three sales years at once, requiring additional legal resources for the ATG. (General Fund - State)

Assistant Attorneys General (AAGs) handling child welfare cases currently experience unmanageable caseloads. Additional attorneys and support staff are required to reduce the number of cases handled by each attorney. Funding is provided for the Attorney General's Office to achieve staffing levels sufficient to better protect children from abuse and neglect and achieve timely permanency for foster children. (Legal Services Revolving Account - State)

Domestic workers, such as nannies, care providers and housekeepers, have historically been excluded from basic labor protections. Attorney General request legislation will be introduced in the 2020 legislative session that would provide health, safety, wage protections and general welfare guarantees for domestic workers. If passed, funding is provided for the Attorney General to fulfill its obligations in implementing this legislation, which includes convening a work group to examine topics such as expansion of paid sick leave, rights and benefits, and other protections for domestic workers. (General Fund - State)

The Legislature invested more than $10 million in the 2019-21 biennium to process a large-scale backlog of untested sexual assault kits. Testing this backlog of approximately 10,000 kits will likely produce new evidence in hundreds of open cold case sexual assaults that must be entered into the Homicide Investigation Tracking System (HITS). The funding provided will create the capacity necessary to prevent this new evidence from languishing by working with local law enforcement and victims of crime through a trauma-informed, victim-centered approach. (General Fund - State)

Funding is provided for the Office of the Attorney General to assist the Employment Security Department with legal services related to the creation and implementation of the Paid Family Medical Leave program. (Legal Services Revolving Account - State)

Senate Bill 5717, introduced in the 2019 legislative session, creates a comprehensive program for certain employees regarding their work schedules. Funding is provided for legal services to the Department of Labor and Industries if this bill is enacted in the 2020 legislative session. (Legal Services Revolving Account - State)

This item funds a collective bargaining agreement reached with the Association of Washington Assistant Attorney Generals (AWAAG). Provisions include a revised salary schedule, payment of Washington State Bar Association dues, and additional pay for duties as acting division chiefs. (Anti-Trust Revolving Account - Non-Appropriated, General Fund - State, Legal Services Revolving Account - State, other funds)

This funds a revised salary schedule and payment of Washington State Bar Association dues for assistant attorneys general who are excluded from coverage under collective bargaining statutes. (Legal Services Revolving Account - State)

For eligible Public Employees' and Teachers' Retirement Systems Plan 1 members, this item provides an increase of 1.5 percent, up to a maximum of $22 per month. (General Fund - State, Legal Services Revolving Account - State, Medicaid Fraud Penalty Account - State, other funds)

Adjustments are made to reflect each agency’s anticipated share of state archiving and state records center costs from the Secretary of State’s Office. (General Fund - State, Legal Services Revolving Account - State)