BILL REQ. #:  S-5015.3 

Read first time 02/06/08.   Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

     AN ACT Relating to providing funding for additional emphasis patrols for DUI enforcement and chemical dependency treatment; amending RCW 66.08.190 and 66.16.010; and reenacting and amending RCW 69.50.520.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 66.08.190 and 2003 1st sp.s. c 25 s 927 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) Except for revenues generated by the ((2003)) surcharge of $0.42/liter on retail sales of spirits ((that shall be distributed to the state general fund during the 2003-2005 biennium)) imposed in RCW 66.16.010(1), when excess funds are distributed, all moneys subject to distribution shall be disbursed as follows:
     (a) Three-tenths of one percent to border areas under RCW 66.08.195; and
     (b) From the amount remaining after distribution under (a) of this subsection, (i) fifty percent to the general fund of the state, (ii) ten percent to the counties of the state, and (iii) forty percent to the incorporated cities and towns of the state.
     (2) During the months of June, September, December, and March of each year, prior to disbursing the distribution to incorporated cities and towns under subsection (1)(b) of this section, the treasurer shall deduct from that distribution an amount that will fund that quarter's allotments under RCW 43.88.110 from any legislative appropriation from the city and town research services account. The treasurer shall deposit the amount deducted into the city and town research services account.
     (3) The governor may notify and direct the state treasurer to withhold the revenues to which the counties and cities are entitled under this section if the counties or cities are found to be in noncompliance pursuant to RCW 36.70A.340.

Sec. 2   RCW 66.16.010 and 2005 c 518 s 935 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) There shall be established at such places throughout the state as the liquor control board, constituted under this title, shall deem advisable, stores to be known as "state liquor stores," for the sale of liquor in accordance with the provisions of this title and the regulations: PROVIDED, That the prices of all liquor shall be fixed by the board from time to time so that the net annual revenue received by the board therefrom shall not exceed thirty-five percent. Effective ((no later than July 1, 2005)) September 1, 2008, the liquor control board shall add an equivalent surcharge of $0.42 per liter on all retail sales of spirits, excluding licensee, military, and tribal sales. ((The intent of this surcharge is to raise revenue for the general fund-state for the 2003-2005 and 2005-2007 bienniums. The board shall remove the surcharge June 30, 2007.))
     (2) The liquor control board may, from time to time, fix the special price at which pure ethyl alcohol may be sold to physicians and dentists and institutions regularly conducted as hospitals, for use or consumption only in such hospitals; and may also fix the special price at which pure ethyl alcohol may be sold to schools, colleges and universities within the state for use for scientific purposes. Regularly conducted hospitals may have right to purchase pure ethyl alcohol on a federal permit.
     (3) The liquor control board may also fix the special price at which pure ethyl alcohol may be sold to any department, branch or institution of the state of Washington, federal government, or to any person engaged in a manufacturing or industrial business or in scientific pursuits requiring alcohol for use therein.
     (4) The liquor control board may also fix a special price at which pure ethyl alcohol may be sold to any private individual, and shall make regulations governing such sale of alcohol to private individuals as shall promote, as nearly as may be, the minimum purchase of such alcohol by such persons.

Sec. 3   RCW 69.50.520 and 2005 c 518 s 937, 2005 c 514 s 1107, and 2005 c 514 s 202 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
     The violence reduction and drug enforcement account is created in the state treasury. All designated receipts from RCW 9.41.110(8), 66.24.210(4), 66.24.290(2), 69.50.505(9)(a), 82.08.150 (5) and (7)(b)(iii), 82.24.020(2), 82.24.026(2)(c), 82.64.020, 66.16.010(1), and section 420, chapter 271, Laws of 1989 shall be deposited into the account. Expenditures from the account may be used only for funding services and programs under chapter 271, Laws of 1989 and chapter 7, Laws of 1994 sp. sess., including state incarceration costs. Funds from the account may also be appropriated to reimburse local governments for costs associated with implementing criminal justice legislation including chapter 338, Laws of 1997. Fifty percent of the money derived from the surcharge imposed in RCW 66.16.010(1) is to be appropriated to the department of social and health services, division of alcohol and substance abuse, for the sole purpose of funding treatment for the chemically dependent who would otherwise be unable to obtain treatment. The remaining fifty percent of the money derived from the surcharge imposed in RCW 66.16.010(1) is to be appropriated to the traffic safety commission for the sole purpose of providing grants to local government for the driving under the influence emphasis patrol programs. Funds from the surcharge imposed in RCW 66.16.010(1) shall not be used to supplant existing local funding. During the 2003-2005 and 2005-2007 bienniums, funds from the account may also be used for costs associated with providing grants to local governments in accordance with chapter 338, Laws of 1997, funding drug offender treatment services in accordance with RCW 70.96A.350, maintenance and operating costs of the Washington association of sheriffs and police chiefs jail reporting system, maintenance and operating costs of the juvenile rehabilitation administration's client activity tracking system, civil indigent legal representation, multijurisdictional narcotics task forces, transfers to the health services account, and grants to community networks under chapter 70.190 RCW by the family policy council.