AN ACT Relating to
local public health governance and financing; reenacting and amending RCW
82.44.110; adding a new section to chapter 70.05 RCW; and providing an
effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec.
1. A new section is added
to chapter 70.05 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 based upon amounts certified to it by the department
of community, trade, and economic development in consultation with the
Washington state association of counties. The account shall include funds
distributed under RCW 82.44.110 and such funds as are appropriated to the
account from the health services account under RCW 43.72.900, the public health
services account under RCW 43.72.902, and such other funds as the legislature may
appropriate to it.
(2) The director of the
department of community, trade, and economic development 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. The
county treasurer shall certify the actual 1995 city contribution to the
department. Funds in excess of the base shall be distributed proportionately
among the health jurisdictions based on incorporated 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.
Sec. 2. 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.
(c) 4.07 percent into
the Puget Sound ferry operations 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 1 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.
3. This act shall take
effect January 1, 1996.
