This bill amends RCW 43.30.205 to specify the composition and selection of a six-member board. The six members are the governor or the governor’s designee, the superintendent of public instruction or that superintendent’s designee, the commissioner (office not specified in the provided text), the director of the University of Washington School of Forest Resources, the dean of the Washington State University College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences, and a county representative from counties that contain state forestlands acquired or transferred under RCW 79.22.010, 79.22.040, and 79.22.020. The county representative must be a duly elected member of a county legislative authority and serves a four-year term unless they leave office earlier. The participating counties’ legislative authorities select that county representative by a meeting convened by the Washington State Association of Counties, with each participating county having one vote; the association notifies the board of the selection. The bill cites and amends RCW 43.30.205 and references RCW 79.22.010, 79.22.040, and 79.22.020. It is a procedural change to board membership and selection; no new crimes or penalty changes are included in the provided facts. The provided material does not identify the statutory name or stated purpose of the board in RCW 43.30.205, does not specify which office “the commissioner” refers to, does not show how this language differs from prior law, and does not explain why an “initial term” beginning July 1, 1986 is referenced in a 2025 amendment.

If enacted, the bill makes explicit who must sit on the board created in RCW 43.30.205 and adds a formal process for the counties that hold certain state forestlands to pick a single county legislator as their representative for a four-year term. That gives those counties a guaranteed voice on the board and creates a recurring duty for county legislative authorities to meet (convened by the Washington State Association of Counties) to select their representative, which may mean modest local administrative time and travel costs and an ongoing commitment to keep the seat filled. The practical impact on state agencies is mostly procedural: offices of the governor and superintendent, the unnamed commissioner, leadership at the University of Washington and Washington State University, and affected counties will have clearly defined membership and selection responsibilities. The bill text does not say what the board’s exact purposes are, who the commissioner is, or whether state or county budgets will cover meeting or participation costs, so how big the financial or policy effects will be is uncertain.