This bill amends RCW 43.119.020 to change the statutory provisions governing the Washington state women's commission. It sets the commission at nine members appointed by the governor, directs the governor to consider maintaining a balanced and diverse distribution of ethnic, geographic, gender, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, and occupational representation where practicable, and states that all commission members serve at the pleasure of the governor and may not serve more than three years without formal reappointment. The bill prescribes staggered initial gubernatorial appointment terms (three members to one year, three to two years, and three to three years), three-year terms for subsequent appointments, vacancy-filling for the remainder of unexpired terms, and that a simple majority of the commission constitutes a quorum. The amendment also establishes two senate and two house advisory members (one from each of the two major political parties for each chamber), appointed by the president of the senate and the speaker of the house respectively, with legislative advisory members serving two-year terms and vacating their advisory position if they cease to be members of the appointing house. Nonlegislative members are to be reimbursed under RCW 43.03.050 and 43.03.060 and legislative members under RCW 44.04.120. The text shows certain phrases in double parentheses (for example, a parenthetical around "with the advice and consent of the senate"), which indicates deletions or edits relative to existing law, but the extracted material does not make the final enacted wording or the full prior text explicit. The document excerpt contains only this single section amendment and does not include an effective date, additional sections, or other implementation details.

If enacted as shown, the commission would be nine governor-appointed members with staggered initial terms (three for one year, three for two, three for three) and subsequent three-year terms, and members would serve at the governor’s pleasure and cannot serve more than three years without formal reappointment. The governor is directed to try to appoint a diverse slate by ethnicity, geography, gender, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, and occupation; two senators and two representatives (one from each major party) serve as two-year legislative advisory members who lose that role if they leave the legislature; nonlegislative and legislative members continue to be reimbursed under existing statutes, and a simple majority is a quorum. The people most affected would be the governor (who gains practical control over appointments and timing), commission members (whose terms and reappointment rules change), and legislative leaders who name the advisory members. The bill does not specify new funding beyond existing reimbursement laws, so direct costs likely stay the same, though appointment timing and member turnover could change how the commission operates. Important implementation details are unclear from the text provided—notably whether the parenthetical deletions remove the senate’s advice-and-consent role, and there is no effective date or other sections shown.