CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1858

                   Chapter 185, Laws of 1991

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

          CITIES AND TOWNS‑-CASHING OF EMPLOYEE CHECKS

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/28/91

Passed by the House March 14, 1991

  Yeas 86   Nays 9

              JOE KING             

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate April 11, 1991

  Yeas 43   Nays 0

           JOEL PRITCHARD          

President of the Senate

Approved May 15, 1991

           BOOTH GARDNER           

Governor of the State of Washington

CERTIFICATE

I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1858 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

            ALAN THOMPSON             Chief Clerk

                                     FILED         

                 May 15, 1991 - 11:39 a.m.

                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington  

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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1858

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                             AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By House Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Bray, Roland and Haugen).

Read first time March 6, 1991.  Authorizing cities and towns to cash employee checks, drafts, and warrants.

     AN ACT Relating to employee check, draft, or warrant cashing by cities and towns; adding a new section to chapter 35.21 RCW; and adding a new section to chapter 35A.40 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 35.21 RCW to read as follows:

     Any city or town is hereby authorized, at its option and after the adoption of the appropriate ordinance, to accept in exchange for cash a payroll check, draft, or warrant; expense check, draft, or warrant; or personal check from a city or town employee in accordance with the following conditions:

     (1) The check, warrant, or draft must be drawn to the order of cash or bearer and be immediately payable by a drawee financial institution; (2) The person presenting the check, draft, or warrant to the city or town must produce identification as outlined by the city or town in the authorizing ordinance;

     (3) The payroll check, draft, or warrant or expense check, draft, or warrant must have been issued by the city or town; and

     (4) Personal checks cashed pursuant to this authorization cannot exceed two hundred dollars.

     In the event that any personal check cashed for a city or town employee by the city or town under this section is dishonored by the drawee financial institution when presented for payment, the city or town is authorized, after notice to the drawer or endorser of the dishonor, to withhold from the drawer's or endorser's next payroll check, draft, or warrant the full amount of the dishonored check.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 35A.40 RCW to read as follows:

     Any code city is hereby authorized, at its option and after the adoption of the appropriate ordinance, to accept in exchange for cash a payroll check, draft, or warrant; expense check, draft, or warrant; or personal check from a city employee in accordance with the following conditions:

     (1) The check, warrant, or draft must be drawn to the order of cash or bearer and be immediately payable by a drawee financial institution; (2) The person presenting the check, draft, or warrant to the city must produce identification as outlined by the city in the authorizing ordinance;

     (3) The payroll check, draft, or warrant or expense check, draft, or warrant must have been issued by the city; and

     (4) Personal checks cashed pursuant to this authorization cannot exceed two hundred dollars.

     In the event that any personal check cashed for a city employee by the city under this section is dishonored by the drawee financial institution when presented for payment, the city is authorized, after notice to the drawer or endorser of the dishonor, to withhold from the drawer's or endorser's next payroll check, draft, or warrant the full amount of the dishonored check.

     Passed the House March 14, 1991.

     Passed the Senate April 11, 1991.

Approved by the Governor May 15, 1991.

     Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 15, 1991.