CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

             ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5452

                   Chapter 355, Laws of 1993

                        53rd Legislature

                      1993 Regular Session

          INCARCERATION COSTS‑-PAYMENT BY MISDEMEANANT

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/93

Passed by the Senate April 17, 1993   YEAS 40   NAYS 0 JOEL PRITCHARD 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.

BRIAN EBERSOLE Speaker of the        House of Representatives

MARTY BROWN                                  Secretary

Approved May 15, 1993 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                            May 15, 1993 - 10:56 a.m.

MIKE LOWRY Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                                   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.

          Passed the Senate April 17, 1993.

          Passed the House April 9, 1993.

Approved by the Governor May 15, 1993.

          Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 15, 1993.