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                                                     SENATE BILL 5173

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

 

By Senators Vognild, Moore and Wojahn

 

Read first time 01/15/93.  Referred to Committee on Labor & Commerce.

 

Restricting appropriations from the gambling revolving fund.


          AN ACT Relating to the gambling revolving fund; and amending RCW 9.46.100.

 

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

 

        Sec. 1.  RCW 9.46.100 and 1991 sp.s. c 16 s 917 are each amended to read as follows:

          There is hereby created the gambling revolving fund which shall consist of all moneys receivable for licensing, penalties, forfeitures, and all other moneys, income, or revenue received by the commission.  The state treasurer shall be custodian of the fund.  All moneys received by the commission or any employee thereof, except for change funds and an amount of petty cash as fixed by rule or regulation of the commission, shall be deposited each day in a depository approved by the state treasurer and transferred to the state treasurer to be credited to the gambling revolving fund.  Disbursements from the revolving fund shall be on authorization of the commission or a duly authorized representative thereof.  In order to maintain an effective expenditure and revenue control the gambling revolving fund shall be subject in all respects to chapter 43.88 RCW but no appropriation shall be required to permit expenditures and payment of obligations from such fund.  All expenses relative to commission business, including but not limited to salaries and expenses of the director and other commission employees shall be paid from the gambling revolving fund.

          ((The state treasurer shall transfer to the general fund one million dollars from the gambling revolving fund for the 1991‑93 fiscal biennium)) Money in the gambling revolving fund may be appropriated by a favorable vote of sixty percent of the members elected to each house of the legislature.

 


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