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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1905

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By House Committee on Finance (originally sponsored by Representatives Lisk, Huff, Quall, Mulliken, Hatfield, Dyer, Grant, Butler, Doumit, McMorris, Gardner, Benson, Morris, Cooke, Kastama, Kessler, Zellinsky, Linville, Wolfe, D. Sommers, Thompson, Robertson, Wensman, Delvin, Carrell, Pennington, Koster, B. Thomas and Sheahan)

Read first time 03/10/97.

Repealing the carbonated beverage tax.

    AN ACT Relating to repealing the carbonated beverage tax; amending RCW 69.50.520; creating a new section; repealing RCW 82.64.010, 82.64.020, 82.64.030, 82.64.040, and 82.64.050; creating a new section; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  The following acts or parts of acts are each repealed:

(1) RCW 82.64.010 and 1994 sp.s. c 7 s 905, 1991 c 80 s 1, & 1989 c 271 s 505;

(2) RCW 82.64.020 and 1994 sp.s. c 7 s 906, 1991 c 80 s 2, & 1989 c 271 s 506;

(3) RCW 82.64.030 and 1994 sp.s. c 7 s 907, 1991 c 80 s 3, & 1989 c 271 s 507;

(4) RCW 82.64.040 and 1994 sp.s. c 7 s 908, 1991 c 80 s 7, & 1989 c 271 s 508; and

(5) RCW 82.64.050 and 1991 c 80 s 4.

    Sec. 2.  RCW 69.50.520 and 1995 2nd sp.s. c 18 s 919 are each amended to read as follows:

    The violence reduction and drug enforcement account is created in the state treasury.  All designated receipts from RCW 9.41.110(((7))) (8), 66.24.210(4), 66.24.290(3), 69.50.505(h)(1), 82.08.150(5), 82.24.020(2), ((82.64.020,)) and section 420, chapter 271, Laws of 1989 shall be deposited into the account.  Expenditures from the account may be used only for funding services and programs under chapter 271, Laws of 1989 and chapter 7, Laws of 1994 sp. sess., including state incarceration costs.  After July 1, 1997, at least seven and one-half percent of expenditures from the account shall be used for providing grants to community networks under chapter 70.190 RCW by the family policy council.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.  This act does not affect any existing right acquired or liability or obligation incurred under the sections repealed in this act or under any rule or order adopted under those sections, nor does it affect any proceeding instituted under those sections.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 4.  (1) If a general fund appropriation meeting the requirements of subsection (2) of this section is not provided by June 30, 1997, in the omnibus appropriations act, referencing this act by bill or chapter number, this act is null and void.

    (2) The general fund appropriation under subsection (1) of this section must be for at least fifteen million five hundred thousand dollars for the biennium ending June 30, 1999, and be provided for the purposes that would be allowed for moneys spent from the violence reduction and drug enforcement account under RCW 69.50.520.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 5.  This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect July 1, 1997.

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