CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2730

                        54th Legislature

                      1996 Regular Session

Passed by the House February 6, 1996   Yeas 97   Nays 0 Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate February 28, 1996   Yeas 49   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2730 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2730

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             Passed Legislature - 1996 Regular Session

State of Washington      54th Legislature     1996 Regular Session

By House Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Representatives McMahan, Sterk and K. Schmidt; by request of Transportation Improvement Board)

Read first time 02/01/96.

Adjusting deductions to the city hardship assistance account.

    AN ACT Relating to deductions from motor vehicle funds to cities and towns; and reenacting and amending RCW 46.68.110.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 46.68.110 and 1991 sp.s. c 15 s 46 and 1991 c 342 s 59 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:

    Funds credited to the incorporated cities and towns of the state as set forth in ((subdivision (1) of)) RCW 46.68.100(1) shall be subject to deduction and distribution as follows:

    (1) One and one-half percent of such sums shall be deducted monthly as such sums are credited and set aside for the use of the department of transportation for the supervision of work and expenditures of such incorporated cities and towns on the city and town streets thereof, including the supervision and administration of federal-aid programs for which the department of transportation has responsibility:  PROVIDED, That any moneys so retained and not expended shall be credited in the succeeding biennium to the incorporated cities and towns in proportion to deductions herein made;

    (2) Thirty-three one-hundredths of one percent of such funds shall be deducted monthly, as such funds accrue, and set aside for the use of the department of transportation for the purpose of funding the cities' share of the costs of highway jurisdiction studies and other studies.  Any funds so retained and not expended shall be credited in the succeeding biennium to the cities in proportion to the deductions made;

    (3) ((From April 1, 1992, two)) One percent of such funds shall be deducted monthly, as such funds accrue, to be deposited in the city hardship assistance account, hereby created in the motor vehicle fund, to implement the city hardship assistance program, as provided in RCW 47.26.164.  However, any moneys so retained and not required to carry out the program as of July 1, 1996, and July 1st of each odd-numbered year thereafter, shall be provided within sixty days to the treasurer and distributed in the manner prescribed in subsection (4) of this section;

    (4) The balance remaining to the credit of incorporated cities and towns after such deduction shall be apportioned monthly as such funds accrue among the several cities and towns within the state ratably on the basis of the population last determined by the office of financial management.

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