HB 2214 - DIGEST

(DIGEST AS ENACTED)

      Provides the definition to clarify ambiguities in prior existing law.

      Applies retroactively to July 1, 1990.

VETO MESSAGE ON HB 2214

                        July 2, 1991

To the Honorable, the House

  of Representatives of the

  State of Washington

Ladies and Gentlemen:

      I am returning herewith, without my approval as to section 2, House Bill No. 2214 entitled:

"AN ACT Relating to the municipal criminal justice assistance account."

      This bill was intended to rectify an ambiguity resulting from a partial veto of Chapter 311, Laws of 1991.  That measure defined criminal justice purposes and established a base year for supplanting provisions of the local criminal justice assistance provided by the Legislature in 1990.  Section 3 of Chapter 311, Laws of 1991, contained the same language as sections 1 and 2 of this bill.

      I vetoed section 3 because I believe it to be inappropriate to withhold critically needed criminal justice funds to effect an administrative agreement between two public entities.  For these same reasons, I am vetoing section 2 of House Bill No. 2214.

      With the exception of section 2, House Bill No. 2214 is approved.

                        Respectfully submitted,

                        Booth Gardner

                        Governor