BILL REQ. #:  H-0177.1 

Read first time 01/13/11.   Referred to Committee on Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness.

     AN ACT Relating to costs for the collection of DNA samples; and amending RCW 43.43.7541.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 43.43.7541 and 2008 c 97 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
     Every sentence imposed ((under chapter 9.94A RCW)) for a crime specified in RCW 43.43.754 must include a fee of one hundred dollars. The fee is a court-ordered legal financial obligation as defined in RCW 9.94A.030((,)) and other applicable law. For a sentence imposed under chapter 9.94A RCW, the fee is payable by the offender after payment of all other legal financial obligations included in the sentence has been completed. For all other sentences, the fee is payable by the offender in the same manner as other assessments imposed. The clerk of the court shall transmit eighty percent of the fee collected to the state treasurer for deposit in the state DNA database account created under RCW 43.43.7532, and shall transmit twenty percent of the fee collected to the agency responsible for collection of a biological sample from the offender as required under RCW 43.43.754.