BILL REQ. #:  H-4416.1 

Read first time 01/16/08.   Referred to Committee on Appropriations.

     AN ACT Relating to providing enhanced funding for crime victim services and prosecutorial costs; adding a new section to chapter 43.31 RCW; and making an appropriation.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 43.31 RCW to read as follows:
     (1) The department of community, trade, and economic development shall establish a grant program to enhance the funding, treatment, and services for victims of felony crimes and for enhanced local prosecutorial costs.
     (2) Funding may be used to build on efforts by existing community programs, coordinating those efforts, or developing cooperating efforts to make the most effective use of resources to provide services to victims and to prosecute a greater number of felony cases.
     (3) Funds shall be disbursed through a request for proposal process.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   The sum of five hundred thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the biennium ending June 30, 2009, from the general fund to the department of community, trade, and economic development for the purposes of section 1 of this act.