S-0695

AN ACT Relating to the use of real property inventories to provide residential care for disabled persons; amending RCW 43.79.201 and 43.185.110; adding a new section to chapter 79.01 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 43.20A RCW; adding a new section to chapter 43.79 RCW; 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 79.01 RCW to read as follows:

(1) Every five years the department of social and health services and other state agencies that operate institutions shall conduct an inventory of all real property subject to the charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory institution account and other real property acquired for institutional purposes or for the benefit of the blind, deaf, mentally ill, developmentally disabled, or otherwise disabled. The inventory shall identify which of those real properties are not needed for state-provided residential care, custody, or treatment. By December 1, 1992, and every five years thereafter the department shall report the results of the inventory to the house of representatives committee on capital facilities and financing, the senate committee on ways and means, and the legislative budget committee.

(2) Real property identified as not needed for state-provided residential care, custody, or treatment shall be transferred to the corpus of the charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory institution account. This subsection shall not apply to real property subject to binding conditions that conflict with the other provisions of this subsection.

(3) The department of natural resources shall manage all property subject to the charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory institution account and, in consultation with the department of social and health services, shall adopt a plan for the management of real property subject to the account and other real property acquired for institutional purposes or for the benefit of the blind, deaf, mentally ill, developmentally disabled, or otherwise disabled.

(a) The plan shall be consistent with state trust land policies and shall be compatible with the needs of institutions adjacent to real property subject to the plan.

(b) The plan may be modified as necessary to ensure the quality of future management and to address the acquisition of additional real property.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 43.20A RCW to read as follows:

The department shall conduct an inventory of real properties as provided in section 1 of this act.

Sec. 3. RCW 43.79.201 and 1985 c 57 s 37 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) All moneys in the state treasury to the credit of that fund now denoted as the C.E.P. & R.I. fund on and after March 20, 1961, and all moneys thereafter paid into the state treasury for or to the credit of such fund shall be and are hereby transferred to and placed in the charitable, educational, penal and reformatory institutions account, hereby created, in the state treasury, into which fund there shall also be deposited all moneys arising from the sale, lease or transfer of the land granted by the United States government to the state for charitable, educational, penal and reformatory institutions by section 17 of the enabling act, or otherwise set apart for such institutions, except all moneys arising from the sale, lease, or transfer of that certain one hundred thousand acres of such land assigned for the support of the University of Washington by chapter 91, Laws of 1903 and section 9, chapter 122, Laws of 1893. All earnings of investments of balances in the charitable, educational, penal and reformatory institutions account shall be credited to the ((~~general fund~~)) account.

(2) If feasible, as determined by the advisory committee, created in RCW 43.185.110, not less than one-quarter of all income to the charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory institutions account shall be appropriated for the purpose of providing housing, excluding repair and renovation of state institutions, for persons who are mentally ill, developmentally disabled, or youth who are blind, deaf, or otherwise disabled.

Sec. 4. RCW 43.185.110 and 1987 c 513 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:

The director shall prepare an annual report and shall send copies to the chair of the house of representatives committee on housing, the chair of the senate committee on commerce and labor, and one copy to the staff of each committee that summarizes the housing trust fund's income, grants and operating expenses, implementation of its program, and any problems arising in the administration thereof. The director shall promptly appoint a low-income housing assistance advisory committee composed of a representative from each of the following groups: Apartment owners, realtors, mortgage lending or servicing institutions, private nonprofit housing assistance programs, tenant associations, and public housing assistance programs. The advisory group shall advise the director on housing needs in this state, including housing needs for persons who are mentally ill or developmentally disabled or youth who are blind or deaf or otherwise disabled, operational aspects of the grant and loan program or revenue collection programs established by this chapter, and implementation of the policy and goals of this chapter. Such advice shall be consistent with policies and plans developed by regional support networks according to chapter 71.24 RCW for the mentally ill and the developmental disabilities planning council for the developmentally disabled.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 5. A new section is added to chapter 43.79 RCW to read as follows:

Where C.E.P. & R.I. land is in urban or suburban areas that have a potential for lease for commercial or residential development, the department of natural resources shall make every effort to obtain such lease. Income from the leases shall be deposited in the charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory institutions account, with one-half of the income to be appropriated by the legislature for the purpose of providing community housing for persons who are mentally ill, developmentally disabled, or youth who are blind, deaf, or otherwise disabled.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 6. 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 shall take effect immediately.