CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5851

2019 REGULAR SESSION

Passed by the Senate March 5, 2019 Yeas 42 Nays 2 President of the Senate Passed by the House April 16, 2019 Yeas 94 Nays 3 Speaker of the House of Representatives	CERTIFICATE I, Brad Hendrickson, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5851 as passed by Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. Secretary Secretary
Approved	FILED
	Secretary of State State of Washington

SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5851

Passed Legislature - 2019 Regular Session

2019 Regular Session

BySenate Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Frockt, Saldaña, Wellman, and Wilson, C.)

READ FIRST TIME 02/28/19.

AN ACT Relating to enhancing educational opportunities for vulnerable children and youth using funding distributed from the Puget Sound taxpayer accountability account; and amending RCW 43.79.520.

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

Sec. 1. RCW 43.79.520 and 2015 3rd sp.s. c 44 s 423 are each amended to read as follows:

(1)(a) The Puget Sound taxpayer accountability account is created in the state treasury. Moneys in the account may be spent only after appropriation. Expenditures from the account may only be used for distribution to counties where a portion of the county is within the boundaries of a regional transit authority that includes a county with a population of one million five hundred thousand or more. Counties may use distributions from the account only ((for educational services)) to improve educational outcomes in early learning, K-12, and higher education including, but not limited to, for ((youths))facilities and programs for children and youth that are low-income, homeless, or in foster care, or other vulnerable populations; and for the purposes in subsection (2) of this section. Counties receiving distributions under this section must track all expenditures and uses of the funds. To the greatest extent practicable, the expenditures of the counties must follow the requirements of any transportation subarea equity element used by the regional transit authority.

(2) Counties may use distributions under this section to start endowments to provide support for improving educational outcomes in early learning, K-12, and higher education.

(3) Beginning September 1, 2017, and by the last day of September, December, March, and June of each year thereafter, the state treasurer ((shall))must distribute moneys deposited in the Puget Sound taxpayer accountability account to counties for which a portion of the county is within the boundaries of a regional transit authority that includes a county with a population of one million five hundred thousand. The treasurer must make the distribution to the counties on the relative basis of that transit authority's population that lives within the respective counties.