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                         SENATE BILL 6455

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State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

By Senators Vognild, Loveland, McAuliffe and M. Rasmussen

Read first time 01/24/94.  Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.

Funding the state patrol highway account.

    AN ACT Relating to the state patrol highway account; amending RCW 43.08.250; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 43.08.250 and 1993 sp.s. c 24 s 917 are each amended to read as follows:

    The money received by the state treasurer from fees, fines, forfeitures, penalties, reimbursements, or assessments, except for fees, fines, forfeitures, penalties, reimbursements, or assessments under chapters 46.32, 46.37, 46.44, and 46.48 RCW and RCW 46.16.010, by any court organized under Title 3 or 35 RCW, or chapter 2.08 RCW, shall be deposited in the public safety and education account which is hereby created in the state treasury.  The legislature shall appropriate the funds in the account to promote traffic safety education, highway safety, criminal justice training, crime victims' compensation, judicial education, the judicial information system, civil representation of indigent persons, winter recreation parking, and state game programs.  During the fiscal biennium ending June 30, 1995, the legislature may appropriate moneys from the public safety and education account for purposes of appellate indigent defense, the criminal litigation unit of the attorney general's office, sexual assault treatment, operations of the office of administrator for the courts, and Washington state patrol criminal justice activities.  Moneys received under chapters 46.32, 46.37, 46.44, and 46.48 RCW and RCW 46.16.010 shall be deposited in the state patrol highway account.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect May 1, 1994.

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