CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1293
Chapter 268, Laws of 2020
66TH LEGISLATURE
2020 REGULAR SESSION
DISCOVER PASS PENALTIES--DISTRIBUTION
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 11, 2020
Passed by the House February 12, 2020
  Yeas 97  Nays 0
LAURIE JINKINS

Speaker of the House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate March 7, 2020
  Yeas 48  Nays 1
CYRUS HABIB

President of the Senate
CERTIFICATE
I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1293 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.
BERNARD DEAN

Chief Clerk
Chief Clerk
Approved April 2, 2020 2:15 PM
FILED
April 3, 2020
JAY INSLEE

Governor of the State of Washington
Secretary of State
State of Washington

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1293

Passed Legislature - 2020 Regular Session
State of Washington
66th Legislature
2020 Regular Session
ByHouse Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Tharinger, Blake, Kretz, and Mosbrucker)
READ FIRST TIME 01/27/20.
AN ACT Relating to the distribution of monetary penalties to local courts and state agencies paid for failure to comply with discover pass requirements; and amending RCW 7.84.100.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 7.84.100 and 2012 c 262 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) A person found to have committed an infraction shall be assessed a monetary penalty. No penalty may exceed five hundred dollars for each offense unless specifically authorized by statute.
(2) The supreme court may prescribe by rule a schedule of monetary penalties for designated infractions. The legislature requests the supreme court to adjust this schedule every two years for inflation. The maximum penalty imposed by the schedule shall be five hundred dollars per infraction and the minimum penalty imposed by the schedule shall be ten dollars per infraction. This schedule may be periodically reviewed by the legislature and is subject to its revision.
(3) Whenever a monetary penalty is imposed by a court under this chapter, it is immediately payable. If the person is unable to pay at that time, the court may, in its discretion, grant an extension of the period in which the penalty may be paid.
(4)(a) The county treasurer shall remit seventy-five percent of the money received under RCW 79A.80.080(5) to the state treasurer.
(b) Money remitted under this subsection to the state treasurer must be deposited in the recreation access pass account established under RCW 79A.80.090. The balance of the noninterest money received by the county treasurer must be deposited in the county current expense fund.
Passed by the House February 12, 2020.
Passed by the Senate March 7, 2020.
Approved by the Governor April 2, 2020.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 3, 2020.
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