This bill amends existing public records law by changing RCW 42.56.070. It adds procedural requirements about how agencies handle public records, including that agencies must make records available for inspection and copying, must delete identifying details when necessary to avoid unreasonable invasion of privacy and explain those deletions in writing, and must publish and keep a current list of other laws the agency believes exempt or prohibit disclosure (failure to list does not affect the exemption). The bill creates indexing requirements and related procedures. Local agencies must maintain and make available an index for certain records issued, adopted, or promulgated after January 1, 1973, unless maintaining the index is unduly burdensome, in which case the agency must issue a formal order explaining the burden and make its internal indexes available. State agencies must adopt rules to establish and implement indexes for several categories of records tied to dates around July 1, 1990 and June 30, 1990, may use indexes prepared by others, and may charge fees to cover actual costs for individually mailed copies of indexes. A public record can be cited as agency precedent against a party only if it has been indexed or affected parties had timely notice. The bill also changes procedural rules about copying costs and lists: agencies may adopt a statement of actual costs for photocopies or electronic copies only after notice and a hearing, and permissible cost items are specified (paper, per-page equipment costs, electronic production or transfer costs including cloud services, shipping and transmission costs, and physical media). Agencies may not include general salary, benefits, or overhead unless directly related to copying. The bill bars agencies and legislative offices from providing lists of individuals for commercial solicitation or fundraising unless specifically authorized by law, defines “solicitation,” excludes labor organization contact efforts for collective bargaining from that definition, and requires that lists of professional license applicants and licensees be made available to recognized professional or educational organizations for a reasonable charge, with recognition refusal allowed only for good cause after a chapter 34.05 RCW hearing. The extracted text does not show other sections of the bill, and terms such as “agency” or references to RCW 34.05.010 and RCW 34.05.240 are not defined here, so additional context from the rest of the bill or the referenced statutes is missing.

If enacted, state and local agencies will have to spend time publishing and maintaining public indexes and explaining any redactions of personal identifiers in records, with local agencies required to index records issued after January 1, 1973 unless they formally declare indexing unduly burdensome and make their internal indexes available. State agencies must adopt rules to index certain categories of older orders and statements around mid-1990, may use third‑party indexes they rely on, and may charge users for mailed indexes or copies only to recover specific actual costs (paper, electronic production, shipping, cloud or transfer fees, and staff time directly tied to copying), but not general overhead or unrelated salaries. The people and offices most affected are state and local agencies, the secretary of the senate and chief clerk of the house, licensing boards, and recognized professional associations and educational organizations; agencies will face new administrative workloads and some new recoverable expenses, licensing offices will need procedures to supply applicant and licensee lists for a reasonable fee and to run hearings if recognition is denied, and agencies will be limited from selling or providing lists for commercial solicitation (though labor unions retaining the right to contact employees about collective bargaining are explicitly excluded from the definition of solicitation). Some implementation details are unclear from the provided text, including the precise scope of who counts as an "agency" and whether the bill contains other related sections.