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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 177
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C 181 L 85
State of Washington 49th Legislature 1985 Regular Session
By House Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Ebersole, Taylor, Vekich, Basich, Hankins, Sutherland, Patrick, Sanders, Fisch, Winsley, S. Wilson, Kremen, Schoon, Bond, G. Nelson and Isaacson)
Read first time 2/13/85 and passed to Committee on Rules.
AN ACT Relating to veterans; and amending RCW 73.04.080 and 73.08.080.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. Section 1, chapter 64, Laws of 1909 as last amended by section 7, chapter 180, Laws of 1947 and RCW 73.04.080 are each amended to read as follows:
Any post,
camp or chapter of any national organization of veterans now, or which may
hereafter be, chartered by an act of congress which has qualified to accept
relief from the ((indigent soldiers' relief)) veteran's assistance
fund of any county may draw upon said county fund for the payment of the rent
of its regular meeting place: PROVIDED, That no post, camp or chapter shall be
allowed to draw on such fund for this purpose to exceed ((the sum of one
hundred eighty dollars)) a reasonable amount approved by the county
legislative authority in any one year, or in any amount for hall rental
where said post, camp or chapter is furnished quarters by the state or by any
municipality.
Before such
claims are ordered paid by the county ((commissioners)) legislative
authority, the commander or authorized disbursing officer of such
posts, camps or chapters shall file a proper claim each month with the county
auditor for such rental.
Sec. 2. Section 7, page 210, Laws of 1888 as last amended by section 6, chapter 295, Laws of 1983 and RCW 73.08.080 are each amended to read as follows:
The legislative
authorities of the several counties in this state shall levy, in addition to
the taxes now levied by law, a tax in a sum equal to the amount which would be
raised by not less than one and one-eighth cents per thousand dollars of
assessed value, and not greater than twenty-seven cents per thousand dollars of
assessed value against the taxable property of their respective counties, to be
levied and collected as now prescribed by law for the assessment and collection
of taxes, for the purpose of creating the veteran's ((relief)) assistance
fund for the relief of honorably discharged veterans as defined in RCW
41.04.005 and the indigent wives, husbands, widows, widowers and minor children
of such indigent or deceased veterans, to be disbursed for such relief by such
county legislative authority: PROVIDED, That if the funds on deposit, less
outstanding warrants, residing in the veteran's ((relief)) assistance
fund on the first Tuesday in September exceed the expected yield of one and
one-eighth cents per thousand dollars of assessed value against the taxable
property of the county, the county legislative authority may levy a lesser
amount: PROVIDED FURTHER, That the costs incurred in the administration of
said veteran's ((relief)) assistance fund shall be computed by
the county treasurer not less than annually and such amount may then be
transferred from the veteran's ((relief)) assistance fund as
herein provided for to the county current expense fund.
The amount of a levy allocated to the purposes specified in this section may be reduced in the same proportion as the regular property tax levy of the county is reduced by chapter 84.55 RCW.