This bill reenacts and amends RCW 44.48.150 to require the legislative evaluation and accountability program (LEAP) committee, working with the Office of Financial Management and using existing shared databases and structures, to establish and maintain a public, searchable state expenditure information website. This is a procedural change to existing law creating a public transparency website; it does not create a new crime or change penalties. The LEAP committee must carry out the work within existing resources. The website must provide current budget and accounting data and historical data (maintained as a ten-year dataset) and be updated periodically as new fiscal year data become available. Minimum required data or links include state expenditures by fund/account and by agency, program, and subprogram; state revenues by major source; expenditures by object and subobject; state agency workloads, caseloads, performance measures, and recent performance audits; agency budget data including carryforward levels by activity; balances of each state fund or account; and an inventory of agency fees required by RCW 43.88.585. By January 1, 2014, current and future capital and transportation projects must be coded with geographic information (legislative district, county, and agency project identifier) as available, and the LEAP committee must update the site to include an online map allowing searches of project appropriations and expenditures at parent and subproject levels. Map data must include project title, total appropriation, project description, expenditure data, and administering agency, and the site must be easy to use and tested with potential users. Affected entities named in the section include the LEAP committee, the Office of Financial Management, every state agency/office/board/commission/institution across the executive, legislative, and judicial branches (including higher education), and administering agencies for capital and transportation projects. The public is identified as the intended user. The extracted text contains only Section 1 amending RCW 44.48.150; it is unclear whether the bill includes additional sections or provisions. The bill cites prior statutes (2013 c 327 s 2 and 2013 c 63 s 2) but the full historical text is not provided here. No additional budget, staffing, or technical standards for geographic coding are specified beyond the phrase "within existing resources" and the requirement to use available geographic information.

If enacted, the law would make detailed state budget and spending information publicly searchable in one online place, including current and ten years of past expenditures, revenues, agency workloads and performance data, fund balances, fees inventory, and capital and transportation project financials tied to maps and geographic identifiers where available. The public, reporters, researchers, and lawmakers would be able to find and compare spending by fund, agency, program, object, legislative district, county, and project identifier, and to view recent audits and performance measures for agencies. The Office of the Legislative Evaluation and Accountability Program Committee and the Office of Financial Management would take on the ongoing work of assembling, updating, testing, and maintaining that site using existing shared data and structures, which increases their operational responsibilities and could strain staff or resources because the bill requires this within current resources but provides no new funding or staffing details. Every state agency, including higher education and project-administering agencies, would need to supply the required data and geographic coding where it isn’t already available, potentially creating extra reporting work or costs; the extent of those costs and the availability or format of geographic project data are not clarified in the provided text.