CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2125

Chapter 62, Laws of 2014

63rd Legislature
2014 Regular Session



HORSE RACING COMMISSION--DEPOSIT OF FINES



EFFECTIVE DATE: 06/12/14

Passed by the House February 17, 2014
  Yeas 97   Nays 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate March 7, 2014
  Yeas 48   Nays 1


BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
 
CERTIFICATE

I, Barbara Baker, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2125 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.


BARBARA BAKER
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Chief Clerk
Approved March 27, 2014, 9:43 a.m.








JAY INSLEE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
March 27, 2014







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2125
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Passed Legislature - 2014 Regular Session
State of Washington63rd Legislature2014 Regular Session

By House Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government & Information Technology (originally sponsored by Representatives Schmick, Cody, and Buys; by request of Horse Racing Commission)

READ FIRST TIME 02/03/14.   



     AN ACT Relating to removing the requirements that all fines collected be credited to the Washington horse racing commission class C purse fund account; and amending RCW 67.16.270.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 67.16.270 and 2004 c 246 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
     Upon making a determination that an individual or licensee has violated a commission rule, the board of stewards may assess a fine, suspend or revoke a person's license, or any combination of these penalties. The commission must adopt by rule standard penalties for a rules violation. All fines collected must be deposited in the Washington horse racing commission ((class C purse fund account, created in RCW 67.16.285, and used as authorized in RCW 67.16.105(3).)) operating account. The funds accrued by the assessed fines will be used to support nonprofit race meets as authorized in RCW 67.16.280(2). If no dates for nonprofit racing are requested or approved, the fines will remain in the Washington horse racing commission operating account.


         Passed by the House February 17, 2014.
         Passed by the Senate March 7, 2014.
         Approved by the Governor March 27, 2014.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 27, 2014.