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                         SENATE BILL 6509

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State of Washington   57th Legislature        2002 Regular Session

By Senators Horn, T. Sheldon, Swecker, Poulsen, Gardner and Oke

Read first time 01/18/2002.  Referred to Committee on Transportation.

Funding the motorcycle safety education account.

    AN ACT Relating to motorcycle license tab fees; and amending RCW 46.68.030.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 46.68.030 and 1990 c 42 s 109 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) Except for proceeds from fees for vehicle licensing for vehicles paying such fees under RCW 46.16.070 and 46.16.085, and as otherwise provided for in subsection (2) of this section and in chapter 46.16 RCW, all fees received by the director for vehicle licenses under the provisions of chapter 46.16 RCW shall be forwarded to the state treasurer, accompanied by a proper identifying detailed report, and be deposited to the credit of the motor vehicle fund, except that the proceeds from the vehicle license fee and renewal license fee shall be deposited by the state treasurer as hereinafter provided.  After July 1, 1981, that portion of each vehicle license fee in excess of $7.40 and that portion of each renewal license fee in excess of $3.40 shall be deposited in the state patrol highway account in the motor vehicle fund, hereby created.  Vehicle license fees, renewal license fees, and all other funds in the state patrol highway account shall be for the sole use of the Washington state patrol for highway activities of the Washington state patrol, subject to proper appropriations and reappropriations therefor, for any fiscal biennium after June 30, 1981, and twenty-seven and three-tenths percent of the proceeds from $7.40 of each vehicle license fee and $3.40 of each renewal license fee shall be deposited each biennium in the Puget Sound ferry operations account.  Any remaining amounts of vehicle license fees and renewal license fees that are not deposited in the Puget Sound ferry operations account shall be deposited in the motor vehicle fund.

(2) Five dollars of each thirty-dollar license tab fee collected for licensing motorcycles must be deposited into the motorcycle safety education account created under RCW 46.68.065, and the remainder must be distributed as prescribed in subsection (1) of this section.

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