BILL REQ. #:  S-2744.1 

Read first time 04/28/13.   Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.

     AN ACT Relating to funding improved impaired driving safety and enforcement; and amending RCW 82.08.160 and 46.68.260.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 82.08.160 and 2012 2nd sp.s. c 5 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) On or before the twenty-fifth day of each month, all taxes collected under RCW 82.08.150 during the preceding month must be remitted to the state department of revenue, to be deposited with the state treasurer. Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, upon receipt of such moneys the state treasurer must credit sixty-five percent of the sums collected and remitted under RCW 82.08.150 (1) and (2) and one hundred percent of the sums collected and remitted under RCW 82.08.150 (3) and (4) to the state general fund and ((thirty-five)) seventeen and one-half percent of the sums collected and remitted under RCW 82.08.150 (1) and (2) to a fund which is hereby created to be known as the "liquor excise tax fund." Seventeen and one-half percent of the sums collected and remitted under RCW 82.08.150 (1) and (2) must be deposited into the impaired driving safety account in RCW 46.68.260.
     (2) During the 2012 fiscal year, 66.19 percent of the sums collected and remitted under RCW 82.08.150 (1) and (2) must be deposited in the state general fund and the remainder collected and remitted under RCW 82.08.150 (1) and (2) must be deposited in the liquor excise tax fund.
     (3) During fiscal year 2013, all funds collected under RCW 82.08.150 (1), (2), (3), and (4) must be deposited into the state general fund.

Sec. 2   RCW 46.68.260 and 2004 c 95 s 16 are each amended to read as follows:
     The impaired driving safety account is created in the ((custody of the state treasurer)) state treasury. All receipts from fees collected under RCW 46.20.311 (1)(e)(ii), (2)(b)(ii), and (3)(b) shall be deposited according to RCW 46.68.041. Additionally, the tax imposed under RCW 66.24.290(5) must be deposited into the account. Expenditures from this account may be used only to fund projects to reduce impaired driving and to provide funding to local governments for costs associated with enforcing laws relating to driving and boating while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug. The account is subject to allotment procedures under chapter 43.88 RCW. Moneys in the account may be spent only after appropriation.