BILL REQ. #:  H-1302.1 

Read first time 02/12/2003.   Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

     AN ACT Relating to legal financial obligations; and amending RCW 10.82.090.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 10.82.090 and 1995 c 291 s 7 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) Financial obligations imposed in a judgment for an offense committed on or after the effective date of this act shall bear interest from the date of the judgment until payment, at the rate ((applicable to civil judgments)) of four percent.
     (2) Financial obligations imposed in a judgment for an offense committed prior to the effective date of this act shall bear interest from the effective date of this act until payment, at the rate of four percent. Nothing in this subsection shall affect any interest accrued on the obligations at a rate other than four percent prior to the effective date of this act.
     (3) All nonrestitution interest retained by the court shall be split twenty-five percent to the state treasurer for deposit in the public safety and education account as provided in RCW 43.08.250, twenty-five percent to the state treasurer for deposit in the judicial information system account as provided in RCW 2.68.020, twenty-five percent to the county current expense fund, and twenty-five percent to the county current expense fund to fund local courts.