SENATE BILL REPORT

                   HB 2264

              As Reported By Senate Committee On:

                  Ways & Means, April 1, 1999

Title:  An act relating to meeting the trust account requirement of the juvenile accountability incentive block grant.

Brief Description:  Meeting the trust account requirement of the juvenile accountability block grant.

Sponsors:  Representatives H. Sommers, Huff and O'Brien; by request of Department of Social and Health Services.

Brief History:

Committee Activity:  Ways & Means:  3/30/99, 4/1/99 [DP].

SENATE COMMITTEE ON WAYS & MEANS

Majority Report:  Do pass.

  Signed by Senators Loveland, Chair; Bauer, Vice Chair; Brown, Vice Chair; Fairley, Fraser, Honeyford, Kohl-Welles, Long, McDonald, Rasmussen, Rossi, B. Sheldon, Snyder, Spanel, Thibaudeau, West, Wojahn and Zarelli.

Staff:  Bryon Moore (786-7726)

Background:  In 1998, the state began to receive funds from the federal Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant.  These funds may be used for specific purposes as defined by federal laws and rules.

Federal law requires states receiving grants to deposit the grant moneys into a trust account that retains its own interest.

Summary of Bill:  The Juvenile Accountability Incentive Account is set up as an appropriated account in the custody of the State Treasurer.  Monies received from the federal Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant must be deposited in the account.

The account retains its own interest earnings, rather than having the interest be distributed to the state general fund.

Appropriation:  None.

Fiscal Note:  Not requested.

Effective Date:  Ninety days after adjournment of session in which bill is passed.

Testimony For:  None.

Testimony Against:  None.

Testified:  No one.