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SENATE BILL 5314
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State of Washington 55th Legislature 1997 Regular Session
By Senators Newhouse, West, Snyder, Haugen, Loveland, Roach, Heavey, Finkbeiner, Winsley, Deccio, Long and Hale
Read first time 01/22/97. Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.
AN ACT Relating to disposition of motor vehicle excise tax revenues; and reenacting and amending RCW 82.44.110.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 82.44.110 and 1995 1st sp.s. c 15 s 2 and 1995 c 398 s 14 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 county public health account created in RCW 70.05.125.
((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.)) Not more than five
percent of the funds deposited to ((these)) the accounts specified
in (i) through (k) of this subsection shall be available for appropriations
for enhancements to the state patrol crime laboratory system and the continuing
costs related to these enhancements. After June 30, 1997, any growth in the
five percent available under this subsection to the state patrol crime
laboratory system shall be available to fund enhancements in either the state
patrol crime laboratory system or the state toxicology laboratory, at the
discretion of the forensic investigations council created under RCW 43.103.030.
Motor vehicle excise tax funds appropriated for such enhancements shall not
supplant existing funds from the state general fund. ((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.
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