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AN ACT Relating to motor vehicle excise tax distributions to local health districts and departments; reenacting and amending RCW 82.44.110; adding a new section to chapter 82.14 RCW; and providing an effective date.

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

Sec. 1. RCW 82.44.110 and 1993 sp.s. c 21 s 7 and 1993 c 492 s 253 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:

The county auditor shall regularly, when remitting license fee receipts, pay over and account to the director of licensing for the excise taxes collected under the provisions of this chapter. The director shall forthwith transmit the excise taxes to the state treasurer.

(1) The state treasurer shall deposit the excise taxes collected under RCW 82.44.020(1) as follows:

(a) 1.60 percent into the motor vehicle fund to defray administrative and other expenses incurred by the department in the collection of the excise tax.

(b) 8.15 percent into the Puget Sound capital construction account in the motor vehicle fund.

(d) 5.88 percent into the general fund to be distributed under RCW 82.44.155.

(e) 4.75 percent into the municipal sales and use tax equalization account in the general fund created in RCW 82.14.210.

(f) 1.60 percent into the county sales and use tax equalization account in the general fund created in RCW 82.14.200.

(g) 62.6440 percent into the general fund through June 30, 1995, and 57.6440 percent into the general fund beginning July 1, 1995.

(h) 5 percent into the transportation fund created in RCW 82.44.180 beginning July 1, 1995.

(i) 5.9686 percent into the county criminal justice assistance account created in RCW 82.14.310.

(j) 1.1937 percent into the municipal criminal justice assistance account for distribution under RCW 82.14.320.

(k) 1.1937 percent into the municipal criminal justice assistance account for distribution under RCW 82.14.330.

(l) 2.95 percent into the ((general fund to be distributed by the state treasurer to county health departments to be used exclusively for public health. The state treasurer shall distribute these funds proportionately among the counties based on population as determined by the most recent United States census)) county public health account created in section 2 of this act.

Notwithstanding (i) through (k) of this subsection, no more than sixty million dollars shall be deposited into the accounts specified in (i) through (k) of this subsection for the period January 1, 1994, through June 30, 1995. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998, and for each fiscal year thereafter, the amounts deposited into the accounts specified in (i) through (k) of this subsection shall not increase by more than the amounts deposited into those accounts in the previous fiscal year increased by the implicit price deflator for the previous fiscal year. Any revenues in excess of this amount shall be deposited into the general fund.

(2) The state treasurer shall deposit the excise taxes collected under RCW 82.44.020(2) into the transportation fund.

(3) The state treasurer shall deposit the excise tax imposed by RCW 82.44.020(3) into the air pollution control account created by RCW 70.94.015.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 82.14 RCW to read as follows:

(1) The county public health account is created in the state treasury. Funds deposited in the county public health account shall be distributed by the state treasurer to each local public health jurisdiction subject to certification by the department of health. The account shall include funds distributed under RCW 82.44.110 and such funds as are appropriated to the account from the county sales and use tax equalization account under RCW 82.14.200, the health services account under RCW 43.72.900, and the public health services account under RCW 43.72.902.

(2) The secretary of health shall certify the amounts to be distributed to each local public health jurisdiction using 1995 as the base year of actual city contributions to local public health, holding health jurisdictions harmless subject to appropriated funds, and distributing the funds in excess of the base proportionately among the health jurisdictions based on population figures as last determined by the office of financial management.

(3) Moneys distributed under this section shall be expended exclusively for local public health purposes and shall not be used to replace or supplant existing funding. Existing funding does not include city or town contributions made through interlocal agreement to local health jurisdictions prior to the effective date of the act.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect January 1, 1996.