BILL REQ. #:  S-5657.1 

Read first time 02/25/08.   Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.

     AN ACT Relating to using existing revenue sources for highway purposes; adding a new section to chapter 46.68 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 82.32 RCW; and providing an effective date.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 46.68 RCW to read as follows:
     The one Washington road account is created in the motor vehicle fund. Money in the account shall be spent only after appropriation. Expenditures from the account shall be used only for highway purposes identified in the omnibus transportation budget and to pay the principal and interest on the bonds authorized for one Washington road account projects or improvements. Because state route number 2 between Everett and Stevens pass continues to experience a disproportionate number of fatality and serious injury accidents and has been designated as a safety corridor by the governor, this corridor must receive priority consideration for any expenditures from this account. For the purposes of this section "highway purposes" has the same meaning as in Article II, section 40 of the Washington state Constitution.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   A new section is added to chapter 82.32 RCW to read as follows:
     (1) The department shall deposit into the one Washington road account all revenue received from taxes imposed under chapters 82.08 and 82.12 RCW, as provided in subsection (2) of this section, upon the sale of, use of, or charge made for:
     (a) Motor vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers used, or of the type designed primarily to be used, upon the public streets and highways, for the convenience or pleasure of the owner, or for the conveyance, for hire, or otherwise of persons or property, including fixed loads and facilities for human habitation; but not including: (i) Dock and warehouse tractors and their cars or trailers, lumber carriers of the type known as spiders, and all other automotive equipment not designed primarily for use upon public streets or highways, (ii) motor vehicles or their trailers used entirely upon private property, or (iii) mobile homes, as defined in RCW 46.04.302;
     (b) Travel trailers, as defined in RCW 46.04.623;
     (c) Campers, as defined in RCW 46.04.085;
     (d) Materials, labor, equipment, contracts, and components used for building, repairing, or improving of any publicly owned street, place, road, highway, easement, right-of-way, mass public transportation terminal or parking facility, bridge, tunnel, or trestle as described in RCW 82.04.050; and
     (e) Construction, improvement, or repair of a ferry, ferry terminal, or other facility operated by the Washington state ferries or for the repair, overhaul, or the dry docking of any ferry operated by the Washington state ferries.
     (2) The department must deposit revenue received under subsection (1) of this section into the one Washington road account, created under section 1 of this act, as follows:
     (a) Twenty percent of all revenue received during fiscal year 2008;
     (b) Forty percent of all revenue received during fiscal year 2009;
     (c) Sixty percent of all revenue received during fiscal year 2010;
     (d) Eighty percent of all revenue received during fiscal year 2011; and
     (e) One hundred percent of all revenue received during fiscal year 2012 and thereafter.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3   This act takes effect July 1, 2008.