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ENGROSSED SECOND SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5936

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State of Washington 57th Legislature 2001 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Prentice, Winsley, Costa, Thibaudeau, Jacobsen, Regala, Gardner, Kline, Spanel, Shin, Rasmussen, Fraser and Kohl‑Welles; by request of Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development)

READ FIRST TIME 03/08/01.

_1 AN ACT Relating to funds for operating and maintenance of low‑

_2 income housing projects and for innovative housing demonstration

_3 projects; amending RCW 36.18.010; adding a new section to chapter

_4 36.22 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 43.330 RCW; and

_5 creating a new section.

_6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

_7 NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature recognizes housing

_8 affordability has become a significant problem for a large portion

_9 of society in many parts of Washington state in recent years. The

10 state has traditionally focused its resources on housing for low-

11 income populations. Additional funding resources are needed for

12 operation and maintenance activities for housing projects for the

13 developmentally disabled and farm worker housing projects. In

14 addition to supporting low-income populations, the state must find

15 new methods to assist moderate and middle-income populations who

16 are having a difficult time affording decent housing at today's

17 prices reasonably near their jobs.

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_1 NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 36.22

_2 RCW to read as follows:

_3 (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, a

_4 surcharge of three dollars per instrument shall be charged by the

_5 county auditor for each document recorded, which will be in

_6 addition to any other charge authorized by law. The auditor may

_7 retain up to ten percent of these funds collected to administer

_8 the collection of these funds. Of the remaining funds, forty

_9 percent of the revenue generated through this surcharge will be

10 transmitted monthly to the state treasurer who will deposit the

11 funds into the Washington housing trust account. The office of

12 community development of the department of community, trade, and

13 economic development will develop guidelines for the use of these

14 funds to support operation and maintenance costs of low-income

15 housing projects that have been developed with housing trust

16 funds. Sixty percent of the revenue generated by this surcharge

17 will be retained by the county and be deposited into a fund that

18 must be used by the county and its cities and towns for low-income

19 housing projects. For purposes of distributing the portion of the

20 surcharge retained by a county pursuant to subsection (2) of this

21 section, the funds shall be allocated among the county and the

22 cities within a county through an interlocal agreement between the

23 county and the cities within the county to jointly carry out the

24 purposes of this act.

25 (2) The surcharge imposed in this section does not apply to

26 assignments or substitutions of previously recorded deeds of

27 trust.

28 Sec. 3. RCW 36.18.010 and 1999 c 233 s 3 are each amended to read

29 as follows:

30 County auditors or recording officers shall collect the

31 following fees for their official services:

32 For recording instruments, for the first page eight and one-

33 half by fourteen inches or less, five dollars; for each additional

34 page eight and one-half by fourteen inches or less, one dollar.

35 The fee for recording multiple transactions contained in one

36 instrument will be calculated for each transaction requiring

37 separate indexing as required under RCW 65.04.050 as follows: The

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_1 fee for each title or transaction is the same fee as the first

_2 page of any additional recorded document; the fee for additional

_3 pages is the same fee as for any additional pages for any recorded

_4 document; the fee for the additional pages may be collected only

_5 once and may not be collected for each title or transaction;

_6 For preparing and certifying copies, for the first page eight

_7 and one-half by fourteen inches or less, three dollars; for each

_8 additional page eight and one-half by fourteen inches or less, one

_9 dollar;

10 For preparing noncertified copies, for each page eight and one-

11 half by fourteen inches or less, one dollar;

12 For administering an oath or taking an affidavit, with or

13 without seal, two dollars;

14 For issuing a marriage license, eight dollars, (this fee

15 includes taking necessary affidavits, filing returns, indexing,

16 and transmittal of a record of the marriage to the state registrar

17 of vital statistics) plus an additional five-dollar fee for use

18 and support of the prevention of child abuse and neglect

19 activities to be transmitted monthly to the state treasurer and

20 deposited in the state general fund plus an additional ten-dollar

21 fee to be transmitted monthly to the state treasurer and deposited

22 in the state general fund. The legislature intends to appropriate

23 an amount at least equal to the revenue generated by this fee for

24 the purposes of the displaced homemaker act, chapter 28B.04 RCW;

25 For searching records per hour, eight dollars;

26 For recording plats, fifty cents for each lot except cemetery

27 plats for which the charge shall be twenty-five cents per lot;

28 also one dollar for each acknowledgment, dedication, and

29 description: PROVIDED, That there shall be a minimum fee of twenty-

30 five dollars per plat;

31 For recording of miscellaneous records not listed above, for

32 the first page eight and one-half by fourteen inches or less, five

33 dollars; for each additional page eight and one-half by fourteen

34 inches or less, one dollar;

35 For modernization and improvement of the recording and indexing

36 system, a surcharge as provided in RCW 36.22.170.

37 For recording an emergency nonstandard document as provided in

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_1 RCW 65.04.047, fifty dollars, in addition to all other applicable

_2 recording fees.

_3 For recording instruments, a surcharge as provided in section 2

_4 of this act.

_5 NEW SECTION. Sec. 4. A new section is added to chapter 43.330

_6 RCW to read as follows:

_7 The office of community development of the department of

_8 community, trade, and economic development is directed to conduct

_9 a statewide housing market analysis by region. The purpose of the

10 analysis is to identify areas of greatest need for the appropriate

11 investment of state affordable housing funds. The analysis shall be

12 completed by September 2002, and updated every two years

13 thereafter. Funding for this analysis is from revenue identified in

14 section 2 of this act.

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