5180-S.E AMH LAMB MATT 26

ESSB 5180 - H AMD

By Representative Lambert

     On page 13, line 24, increase the public safety and education account appropriation by $800,000

     On page 13, line 29, correct the total appropriation

     On page 14, after line 21, insert the following:

A(4) $800,000 of the public safety and education account appropriation is provided solely for completing the statewide implementation of the supervision management and recidivist tracking program.@

     On page 63, line 35, reduce the public safety and education account appropriation by $800,000

     On page 63, line 26, correct the total appropriation

     On page 63, line 31, strike A5,216,000" and insert A4,416,000"

     On page 172, starting on line 16, strike all of section 915 and insert the following:

ASec. 915.  RCW 43.08.250 and 1997 c 149 s 910 are each amended to read as follows:

     The money received by the state treasurer from fees, fines, forfeitures, penalties, reimbursements or assessments 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, ((1999)) 2001, the legislature may appropriate moneys from the public safety and education account for purposes of appellate indigent defense and other operations of the office of public defense, the criminal litigation unit of the attorney general's office, the supervision management and recidivist tracking program, the treatment alternatives to street crimes program, crime victims advocacy programs, justice information network telecommunication planning, sexual assault treatment, operations of the office of administrator for the courts, security in the common schools, alternative school start-up grants, programs for disruptive students, criminal justice data collection, ((and)) Washington state patrol criminal justice activities, and the replacement of the department of corrections' offender-based tracking system.@

EFFECT: Provides public safety and education account funding to and requires the Office of the Attorney General to implement the supervision management and recidivist tracking (SMART) program on a statewide basis. Reduces the public safety and education account funding to the Department of Corrections for the purpose of the replacement of the offender-based tracking system by $800,000.  Amends state statute relating to the public safety and education account to accommodate the SMART program for the 1999-01 biennium.

FISCAL IMPACT: None.