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                                           ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL NO. 2939

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1990 Regular Session

By Representatives Braddock, Brooks, Morris, Jacobsen, Silver, Holland, Winsley and Baugher; by request of Department of Corrections

Read first time 1/26/90 and referred to Committee on Health Care. Referred to Committee on Appropriations 2/2/90.

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AN ACT Relating to population limits at correctional institutions; creating a new section; and repealing RCW 72.02.180 and 72.02.190.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  The following acts or parts of acts are each repealed:

                    (1) Section 109, chapter 136, Laws of 1981, section 2, chapter 350, Laws of 1985, section 4, chapter 143, Laws of 1988 and RCW 72.02.180; and

          (2) Section 14, chapter 143, Laws of 1988 and RCW 72.02.190.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     If the department of corrections provides new inmate beds within ten miles of a city or town that is within three miles of a correctional facility that would have been subject to any section repealed by section 1 of this act, and if that facility had an average annual inmate capacity of at least one thousand on the effective date of this act, the department shall provide mitigating funds to the city or town containing or closest to the facility with the new beds.  The mitigation funds shall be calculated as follows:  The number of new beds divided by one thousand multiplied by the annual general fund‑-state operating budget of the department's correctional facilities within ten miles of that town or city, multiplied by one percent.  The city or town, in its discretion, may share the funds with other cities or the county in which the city or town is located.  The department shall provide mitigation funds annually, adjusted for changes in additional new beds and in the department's budget.  The funds authorized by this section shall be in addition to any other amounts that were authorized prior to the effective date of this act by the legislature or ordered by any court for the purpose of mitigating the impact of adult correctional facilities.