HB 1921 - DIGEST

Provides that, in addition to all other license fees, passenger cars, travel trailers, and motor homes are assessed a roadway improvement fee of one and one-half cents per vehicle pound based on the vehicle curb weight.

Directs the department to collect the fee annually.

Provides that the revenue must be deposited into the motor vehicle account. Two-thirds of the revenue will be used by the state exclusively for highway improvement projects. The remainder will be divided equally between counties and cities and distributed monthly to counties and cities by the state treasurer.

Provides that each authorized vehicle insurer shall, on the first day of March of each year, pay to the state treasurer through the commissioner's office a transportation enforcement fee. The fee will be two dollars per vehicle policy and must be included in the premiums for all motor vehicle insurance policies and will be deposited into the transportation enforcement account.

Provides that moneys in the account may be spent only after appropriation. Expenditures from the account may be used only for enforcement activities related to fuel tax evasion, auto theft, and vehicular crime investigations by the Washington state patrol.