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                             ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 1500

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Representatives Riley, Hargrove, Basich, Wood, Roland, Appelwick, Paris and Scott.

Read first time January 31, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Human Services.Increasing the pay for jail labor performed by prisoners with outstanding fines and costs.

     AN ACT Relating to jail labor; and amending RCW 10.82.030.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 10.82.030 and 1983 c 276 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

     If any person ordered into custody until the fine and costs adjudged against him be paid shall not, within five days, pay, or cause the payment of the same to be made, the clerk of the court shall issue a warrant to the sheriff commanding him to imprison such defendant in the county jail until the amount of such fine and costs owing are paid.  Execution may at any time issue against the property of the defendant for that portion of such fine and costs not reduced by the application of this section.  The amount of such fine and costs owing shall be the whole of such fine and costs reduced by the amount of any portion thereof paid, and ((thirty-five)) sixty dollars for every day the defendant performs labor as provided in RCW 10.82.040, and ((twenty-five)) forty-two dollars for every day the defendant does not perform such labor while imprisoned.