BILL REQ. #:  S-3261.2 

Read first time 12/07/11.   Referred to Committee on Energy, Natural Resources & Marine Waters.

     AN ACT Relating to ensuring that the trust beneficiaries receive their proportionate distribution of moneys received from the sale of discover passes; and amending RCW 79A.80.090.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 79A.80.090 and 2011 c 320 s 10 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) The recreation access pass account is created in the state treasury. All moneys received from the sale of discover passes and day-use permits must be deposited into the account.
     (2) Each fiscal biennium, the first seventy-one million dollars in revenue must be distributed to the agencies in the following manner:
     (a) Eight percent to the department of fish and wildlife and deposited into the state wildlife account created in RCW 77.12.170;
     (b) Eight percent to the department of natural resources ((and)), of which: (i) Thirty percent must be deposited into the park land trust revolving fund created in RCW 43.30.385; and (ii) seventy percent must be distributed equitably to the beneficiaries of state lands and state forest lands, as those terms are defined in RCW 79.02.010, as determined by the commissioner of public lands; and
     (c) Eighty-four percent to the state parks and recreation commission and deposited into the state parks renewal and stewardship account created in RCW 79A.05.215.
     (3) Each fiscal biennium, revenues in excess of seventy-one million dollars must be distributed equally among the agencies to the accounts identified in subsection (2) of this section.