CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE BILL 1115
67TH LEGISLATURE
2021 REGULAR SESSION
Passed by the House March 2, 2021
  Yeas 95  Nays 2

Speaker of the House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate April 3, 2021
  Yeas 46  Nays 0

President of the Senate
CERTIFICATE
I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1115 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

Chief Clerk
Chief Clerk
Approved
FILED
Secretary of State
State of Washington

HOUSE BILL 1115

Passed Legislature - 2021 Regular Session
State of Washington
67th Legislature
2021 Regular Session
ByRepresentatives Fey, Wylie, Bronoske, and Ramos; by request of Office of Financial Management
Prefiled 01/08/21.Read first time 01/11/21.Referred to Committee on Transportation.
AN ACT Relating to implementing cost recovery of state agency credit card and transaction fees and related costs for driver and vehicle fee transactions; adding new sections to chapter 46.01 RCW; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 46.01 RCW to read as follows:
The department must implement cost recovery mechanisms to recoup at least a portion of credit card and other financial transaction costs as part of charges imposed for driver and vehicle fee transactions. The department must develop a method of tracking the amount of credit card and other financial cost recovery revenues. The department must notify the state treasurer of these amounts and the state treasurer must deposit these revenues in the agency financial transaction account created in section 2 of this act on a quarterly basis.
NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 46.01 RCW to read as follows:
The agency financial transaction account is created in the state treasury. Receipts directed by law to the account from cost recovery charges for credit card and other financial transaction fees must be deposited into the account. Moneys in the account may be spent only after appropriation. Expenditures from the account may be used only for paying credit card and financial transaction fees, and other related costs incurred by state agencies.
NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3. This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect July 1, 2021.
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