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                                  ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 203

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By House Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Representatives Patrick, Holland, Leonard, Brough, Schmidt, Crane, Todd, Padden, Lux, Zellinsky, Schoon, Bond, Sanders, Isaacson, May and J. Williams)

Read first time 3/8/85 and passed to Committee on Rules.

AN ACT Relating to counties; creating a new section; providing an expiration date; and declaring an emergency.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.     The state auditor shall conduct a study relating to diversions of county road property tax revenues by counties under RCW 36.33.220 for traffic law enforcement expenditures under RCW 36.79.140.  The study shall identify the specific traffic law enforcement functions funded by county road property tax revenues.  The state auditor also shall identify the total expenditures for the county departments of public safety and the source of funds for these expenditures.

          The study also shall determine the total diversions of county road property tax revenues under RCW 36.33.220 by any county by year, beginning in 1972, and shall identify the purposes for which diversions have been made.

          The results of this study shall be submitted to the legislative transportation committee by December 31, 1985.

          This section shall expire on December 31, 1985.

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