AN
ACT Relating to funding local government research services; and amending RCW
43.110.050, 66.08.190, 82.08.170, and 43.110.060.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
43.110.050 and 1997 c 437 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)
A special account is created in the state treasury to be known as the county
research services account. The account shall consist of all money transferred
to the account under RCW 82.08.170 or otherwise transferred or appropriated to
the account by the legislature. Moneys in the account may be spent only after
appropriation. The account is subject to the allotment process under chapter
43.88 RCW.
Moneys
in the county research services account may be expended only to finance the
costs of county research.
(2) All unobligated moneys remaining in the account at the end
of the fiscal biennium shall be distributed by the treasurer to the counties of
the state in the same manner as the distribution under RCW 82.08.170(1)(a).
Sec.
2. RCW
66.08.190 and 2000 c 227 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)
When excess funds are distributed, all moneys subject to distribution shall be
disbursed as follows:
(a)
Three-tenths of one percent to border areas under RCW 66.08.195; and
(b)
From the amount remaining after distribution under (a) of this subsection, (i)
fifty percent to the general fund of the state, (ii) ten percent to the
counties of the state, and (iii) forty percent to the incorporated
cities and towns of the state.
(2)
During the months of ((July, October, January, and April)) June,
September, December, and March of each year, prior to disbursing the
distribution to incorporated cities and towns under subsection (1)(b) of this
section, the treasurer shall deduct from that distribution an amount that((,
when combined with any cash balance in the city and town research services
account,)) will fund that quarter's allotments under RCW 43.88.110 from any
legislative appropriation from the city and town research services account.
The treasurer shall deposit the amount deducted into the city and town research
services account.
(3)
The governor may notify and direct the state treasurer to withhold the revenues
to which the counties and cities are entitled under this section if the
counties or cities are found to be in noncompliance pursuant to RCW 36.70A.340.
Sec.
3. RCW
82.08.170 and 1997 c 437 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)
During the months of January, April, July and October of each year, the state
treasurer shall make the apportionment and distribution of all moneys in the
liquor excise tax fund to the counties, cities and towns in the following
proportions: (a) Twenty percent of the moneys in ((said)) the
liquor excise tax fund shall be divided among and distributed to the counties
of the state in accordance with the provisions of RCW 66.08.200; and (b)
eighty percent of the moneys in ((said)) the liquor excise tax
fund shall be divided among and distributed to the cities and towns of the
state in accordance with the provisions of RCW 66.08.210.
(2)
Each fiscal quarter and prior to making the twenty percent distribution to
counties under subsection (1)(a) of this section, the treasurer shall
transfer to the county research services account under RCW 43.110.050
sufficient moneys ((that, when combined with any cash balance in the
account, will)) to fund the allotments from any legislative
appropriations from the county research services account.
Sec.
4. RCW
43.110.060 and 2000 c 227 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
The
city and town research services account is created in the state treasury.
Moneys in the account shall consist of amounts transferred under RCW
66.08.190(2) and any other transfers or appropriations to the account. Moneys
in the account may be spent only after an appropriation. Expenditures from the
account may be used only for city and town research.
All
unobligated moneys remaining in the account at the end of the fiscal
biennium shall be distributed by the treasurer to the incorporated cities and
towns of the state in the same manner as the distribution under RCW
66.08.190(1)(b)(iii).
The treasurer may disburse amounts appropriated to the municipal
research council from the city and town research services account by warrant or
check to the contracting parties on invoices or vouchers certified by the chair
of the municipal research council or his or her designee. Payments to public
agencies may be made in advance of actual work contracted for, at the
discretion of the council.
