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                                   ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5452

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Hargrove, Deccio, Oke and Hochstatter)

Read first time 02/11/93.

Requiring misdemeanants to pay jail costs.

          AN ACT Relating to payment for costs of incarceration; and adding a new section to chapter 10.64 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 10.64 RCW to read as follows:

          Once a defendant has been convicted of a misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor, unless the defendant has been found by the court, pursuant to RCW 10.101.020, to be indigent, the court may require the defendant to pay for the cost of incarceration at a rate of up to fifty dollars per day of incarceration.  Payment of other court ordered financial obligations, including all legal financial obligations and costs of supervision shall take precedence over the payment of the cost of incarceration ordered by the court.  All funds received from defendants for the cost of incarceration in the county jail shall be remitted to the county.

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