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                                                      HOUSE BILL 2121

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Representative R. Fisher; by request of Office of Financial Management

Read first time 4/02/93.  Referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.

Expanding the use of public safety and education account moneys.

          AN ACT Relating to funding for state patrol criminal justice activities; amending RCW 43.08.250; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

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

        Sec. 1.  RCW 43.08.250 and 1992 c 54 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:

          The money received by the state treasurer from fees, fines, forfeitures, penalties, reimbursements or assessments by any court organized under Title 3 or 35 RCW, or chapter 2.08 RCW, shall be deposited in the public safety and education account which is hereby created in the state treasury.  The legislature shall appropriate the funds in the account to promote traffic safety education, highway safety, criminal justice training, crime victims' compensation, judicial education, the judicial information system, civil representation of indigent persons, winter recreation parking, ((and)) state game programs((.  During the fiscal biennium ending June 30, 1993, the legislature may appropriate moneys from the public safety and education account)), state patrol criminal justice activities including but not limited to fingerprinting, identification, and crime lab activities, and for the purposes of local jail population data collection under RCW 10.98.130((, the department of corrections' county partnership program under RCW 72.09.300, the treatment alternatives to street crimes program, the criminal litigation unit of the attorney general's office, and contracts with county officials to provide support enforcement services)).

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect July 1, 1993.

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