BILL REQ. #:  S-1514.1 

Read first time 02/21/13.   Referred to Committee on Transportation.

     AN ACT Relating to the distribution of initial and renewal vehicle license 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 2011 c 171 s 85 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) The director shall forward all fees for vehicle registrations under chapters 46.16A and 46.17 RCW, unless otherwise specified by law, to the state treasurer with a proper identifying detailed report. The state treasurer shall credit these moneys to the motor vehicle fund created in RCW 46.68.070.
     (2) Proceeds from vehicle license fees and renewal vehicle license fees must be deposited by the state treasurer ((as follows:
     (a) $20.35 of each initial or renewal vehicle license fee must be deposited)) in the state patrol highway account in the motor vehicle fund, hereby created. Vehicle license fees, renewal vehicle license fees, and all other funds in the state patrol highway account must be for the sole use of the Washington state patrol for highway activities of the Washington state patrol, subject to proper appropriations and reappropriations.
     (((b) $2.02 of each initial vehicle license fee and $0.93 of each renewal vehicle license fee must be deposited each biennium in the Puget Sound ferry operations account.
     (c) Any remaining amounts of vehicle license fees and renewal vehicle license fees that are not distributed otherwise under this section must be deposited in the motor vehicle fund.))