CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SENATE BILL 5392
68TH LEGISLATURE
2023 REGULAR SESSION
Passed by the Senate February 22, 2023
  Yeas 49  Nays 0

President of the Senate
Passed by the House April 12, 2023
  Yeas 96  Nays 1

Speaker of the House of Representatives
CERTIFICATE
I, Sarah Bannister, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5392 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Secretary
Secretary
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Secretary of State
State of Washington

SENATE BILL 5392

Passed Legislature - 2023 Regular Session
State of Washington
68th Legislature
2023 Regular Session
BySenators Schoesler and Pedersen
Read first time 01/16/23.Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.
AN ACT Relating to overpayments for certain matters; and amending RCW 63.30.270.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 63.30.270 and 2022 c 225 s 406 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) A local government holding abandoned intangible property that is not forwarded to the department of revenue in subsection (2) of this section is not required to maintain current records of this property for longer than five years after the property is presumed abandoned, and at that time may archive records of this intangible property and transfer the intangible property to its general fund. However, the local government remains liable to pay the intangible property to a person or entity subsequently establishing its ownership of this intangible property.
(2) Counties, cities, towns, and other municipal and quasi-municipal corporations that hold funds representing warrants canceled pursuant to RCW 36.22.100 and 39.56.040, uncashed checks, and property tax overpayments or refunds may retain the funds until the owner notifies them and establishes ownership as provided in this chapter. Counties, cities, towns, or other municipal and quasi-municipal corporations must provide to the administrator a report of property it is holding pursuant to this section. The report must identify the property and owner in the manner provided in this section and RCW 63.30.220 through 63.30.260 and the administrator must publish the information as provided in RCW 63.30.300.
(3) Courts may retain overpayments made in connection with any litigation, including traffic, criminal, and noncriminal matters, for amounts less than or equal to $10. These overpayments shall be remitted by the clerk of the court to the local treasurer for deposit in the local current expense fund.
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