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                          HOUSE BILL 1905

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Representatives Lisk, Huff, Quall, Mulliken, Hatfield, Dyer, Grant, Butler, Doumit, McMorris, Gardner, Benson, Morris, Cooke, Kastama, Kessler, Zellinsky, Linville, Wolfe, D. Sommers, Thompson, Robertson and Wensman

Read first time 02/13/97.  Referred to Committee on Finance.

Repealing the carbonated beverage tax.

    AN ACT Relating to repealing the carbonated beverage tax; amending RCW 69.50.520; creating a new section; repealing RCW 82.64.010, 82.64.020, 82.64.030, 82.64.040, and 82.64.050; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  The following acts or parts of acts are each repealed:

(1) RCW 82.64.010 and 1994 sp.s. c 7 s 905, 1991 c 80 s 1, & 1989 c 271 s 505;

(2) RCW 82.64.020 and 1994 sp.s. c 7 s 906, 1991 c 80 s 2, & 1989 c 271 s 506;

(3) RCW 82.64.030 and 1994 sp.s. c 7 s 907, 1991 c 80 s 3, & 1989 c 271 s 507;

(4) RCW 82.64.040 and 1994 sp.s. c 7 s 908, 1991 c 80 s 7, & 1989 c 271 s 508; and

(5) RCW 82.64.050 and 1991 c 80 s 4.

    Sec. 2.  RCW 69.50.520 and 1995 2nd sp.s. c 18 s 919 are each amended to read as follows:

    The violence reduction and drug enforcement account is created in the state treasury.  All designated receipts from RCW 9.41.110(((7)))(8), 66.24.210(4), 66.24.290(3), 69.50.505(h)(1), 82.08.150(5), 82.24.020(2), ((82.64.020,)) and section 420, chapter 271, Laws of 1989 shall be deposited into the account.  Expenditures from the account may be used only for funding services and programs under chapter 271, Laws of 1989 and chapter 7, Laws of 1994 sp. sess., including state incarceration costs.  After July 1, 1997, at least seven and one-half percent of expenditures from the account shall be used for providing grants to community networks under chapter 70.190 RCW by the family policy council.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.  This act does not affect any existing right acquired or liability or obligation incurred under the sections repealed in this act or under any rule or order adopted under those sections, nor does it affect any proceeding instituted under those sections.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 4.  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 takes effect July 1, 1997.

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