HB 1263 - DIGEST

     Requires the state to pay all costs for the prosecution, adjudication, sentencing, and incarceration of all misdemeanor and  gross misdemeanor offenses referred to each county or city by a state agency, including but not limited to the state patrol, the department of fish and wildlife, any public college or university police force, or the state parks department.  State payment of these costs constitutes a transfer to the state for local government costs under RCW 43.135.060(2).