CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 6087
68TH LEGISLATURE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
Passed by the Senate February 13, 2024
  Yeas 49  Nays 0
President of the Senate
Passed by the House March 6, 2024
  Yeas 96  Nays 0
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 ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 6087 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.
Secretary
Secretary
Approved
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Secretary of State
State of Washington
ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 6087
Passed Legislature - 2024 Regular Session
State of Washington
68th Legislature
2024 Regular Session
BySenators King, Lovick, and Mullet; by request of Washington State Patrol
Read first time 01/09/24.Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.
AN ACT Relating to the fire service training account; and amending RCW 43.43.944.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 43.43.944 and 2020 c 88 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) The fire service training account is hereby established in the state treasury. The primary purpose of the account is firefighter training for both volunteer and career firefighters. The fund shall consist of:
(a) All fees received by the Washington state patrol for fire service training;
(b) All grants and bequests accepted by the Washington state patrol under RCW 43.43.940;
(c) ((Twenty))Twenty-two percent of all moneys received by the state on fire insurance premiums;
(d) Revenue from penalties established under RCW 19.27.740; and
(e) General fund—state moneys appropriated into the account by the legislature.
(2) Moneys in the account may be appropriated for: (a) Fire service training; (b) school fire prevention activities within the Washington state patrol; and (c) the maintenance, operations, and capital projects of the state fire training academy. However, expenditures for purposes of (b) and (c) of this subsection may only be made to the extent that these expenditures do not adversely affect expenditures for the purpose of (a) of this subsection. The state patrol may use amounts appropriated from the fire service training account under this section to contract with the Washington state firefighters apprenticeship trust for the operation of the firefighter joint apprenticeship training program. The contract may call for payments on a monthly basis.
(3) Any general fund—state moneys appropriated into the account shall be allocated solely to the firefighter joint apprenticeship training program. The Washington state patrol may contract with outside entities for the administration and delivery of the firefighter joint apprenticeship training program.
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