| Passed by the House March 1, 2011 Yeas 96 FRANK CHOPP ________________________________________ Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 7, 2011 Yeas 47 BRAD OWEN ________________________________________ President of the Senate | I, Barbara Baker, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SECOND SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1153 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth. BARBARA BAKER ________________________________________ Chief Clerk | |
| Approved April 20, 2011, 1:51 p.m. CHRISTINE GREGOIRE ________________________________________ Governor of the State of Washington | April 20, 2011 Secretary of State State of Washington |
| State of Washington | 62nd Legislature | 2011 Regular Session |
READ FIRST TIME 02/17/11.
AN ACT Relating to costs for the collection of DNA samples; and amending RCW 43.43.7541.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1 RCW 43.43.7541 and 2008 c 97 s 3 are each amended to read
as follows:
Every sentence imposed ((under chapter 9.94A RCW)) for a crime
specified in RCW 43.43.754 must include a fee of one hundred dollars.
The fee is a court-ordered legal financial obligation as defined in RCW
9.94A.030((,)) and other applicable law. For a sentence imposed under
chapter 9.94A RCW, the fee is payable by the offender after payment of
all other legal financial obligations included in the sentence has been
completed. For all other sentences, the fee is payable by the offender
in the same manner as other assessments imposed. The clerk of the
court shall transmit eighty percent of the fee collected to the state
treasurer for deposit in the state DNA database account created under
RCW 43.43.7532, and shall transmit twenty percent of the fee collected
to the agency responsible for collection of a biological sample from
the
offender as required under RCW 43.43.754.