On page 79, after line 29, insert the following:

"Sec. 403. RCW 47.04.300 and 2009 c 392 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) Concurrent with the federal safe, accountable, flexible, efficient transportation equity act of 2005, a safe routes to school program is established within the department. The purpose of the program is to:

(((1))) (a) Enable and encourage children, including those with disabilities, to walk and bicycle to school;

(((2))) (b) Make bicycling and walking to school a safer and more appealing transportation alternative, encouraging a healthy and active lifestyle from an early age; and

(((3))) (c) Facilitate the planning, development, and implementation of projects and activities that will improve safety and reduce traffic, fuel consumption, and air pollution in the vicinity of schools.

(2) Consistent with federal funding levels from the 2011-2013 omnibus transportation appropriations act, at least ten million four hundred thousand dollars of federal transportation funds, of which fifty percent must come from the transportation alternatives program or an equivalent program and fifty percent from the highway safety improvement program or an equivalent program, must be made available during each fiscal biennium to the safe routes to school program.

Sec. 404. RCW 46.68.060 and 2013 c 306 s 717 are each amended to read as follows:

There is hereby created in the state treasury a fund to be known as the highway safety fund to the credit of which must be deposited all moneys directed by law to be deposited therein. This fund must be used for carrying out the provisions of law relating to driver licensing, driver improvement, financial responsibility, cost of furnishing abstracts of driving records and maintaining such case records, and to carry out the purposes set forth in RCW 43.59.010, and chapters 46.72 and 46.72A RCW. ((During the 2011-2013 and 2013-2015 fiscal biennia, the legislature may transfer from the highway safety fund to the Puget Sound ferry operations account, the motor vehicle fund, and the multimodal transportation account such amounts as reflect the excess fund balance of the highway safety fund.)) Beginning with the 2015-2017 fiscal biennium, during each fiscal biennium thereafter, and consistent with the intent of the fee increases in chapter 74, Laws of 2012 and chapter 80, Laws of 2012, at least six million eight hundred thousand dollars from the highway safety fund must be dedicated to the safe routes to school program under RCW 47.04.300."