CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

             ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5452

 

 

 

 

                        53rd Legislature

                      1993 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate April 17, 1993

  YEAS 40   NAYS 0

 

 

 

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House April 9, 1993

  YEAS 97   NAYS 1

               CERTIFICATE

 

I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5452 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

                                 Secretary

 

 

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

                                     FILED

          

 

 

Governor of the State of Washington

                        Secretary of State

                       State of Washington

                              _______________________________________________

 

                                   ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5452

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                                                            AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

 

                                                       Passed Legislature - 1993 Regular Session

 

State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

 

By Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Hargrove, Deccio, Oke and Hochstatter)

 

Read first time 02/11/93.

 

Requiring misdemeanants to pay jail costs.

          AN ACT Relating to payment for costs of incarceration; and adding a new section to chapter 10.64 RCW.

 

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

 

          NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 10.64 RCW to read as follows:

          Once a defendant has been convicted of a misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor, unless the defendant has been found by the court, pursuant to RCW 10.101.020, to be indigent, the court may require the defendant to pay for the cost of incarceration at a rate of up to fifty dollars per day of incarceration.  Payment of other court ordered financial obligations, including all legal financial obligations and costs of supervision shall take precedence over the payment of the cost of incarceration ordered by the court.  All funds received from defendants for the cost of incarceration in the county or city jail shall be remitted to the county or city for criminal justice purposes.

 

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