CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE BILL 1115
67th Legislature
2021 Regular Session
Passed by the House March 2, 2021 CERTIFICATE
Yeas 95 Nays 2
I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the
House of Representatives of the
State of Washington, do hereby
certify that the attached is HOUSE
Speaker of the House of BILL 1115 as passed by the House of
Representatives Representatives and the Senate on
the dates hereon set forth.
Passed by the Senate April 3, 2021
Yeas 46 Nays 0
Chief Clerk
President of the Senate
Approved FILED
Secretary of State
State of Washington
Governor of the State of Washington
 HOUSE BILL 1115
Passed Legislature - 2021 Regular Session
State of Washington 67th Legislature 2021 Regular Session
By Representatives Fey, Wylie, Bronoske, and Ramos; by request of
Office of Financial Management
Prefiled 01/08/21. Read first time 01/11/21. Referred to Committee
on Transportation.
1 AN ACT Relating to implementing cost recovery of state agency
2 credit card and transaction fees and related costs for driver and
3 vehicle fee transactions; adding new sections to chapter 46.01 RCW;
4 providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.
5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
6 NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 46.01
7 RCW to read as follows:
8 The department must implement cost recovery mechanisms to recoup
9 at least a portion of credit card and other financial transaction
10 costs as part of charges imposed for driver and vehicle fee
11 transactions. The department must develop a method of tracking the
12 amount of credit card and other financial cost recovery revenues. The
13 department must notify the state treasurer of these amounts and the
14 state treasurer must deposit these revenues in the agency financial
15 transaction account created in section 2 of this act on a quarterly
16 basis.
17 NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 46.01
18 RCW to read as follows:
19 The agency financial transaction account is created in the state
20 treasury. Receipts directed by law to the account from cost recovery
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1 charges for credit card and other financial transaction fees must be
2 deposited into the account. Moneys in the account may be spent only
3 after appropriation. Expenditures from the account may be used only
4 for paying credit card and financial transaction fees, and other
5 related costs incurred by state agencies.
6 NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. This act is necessary for the immediate
7 preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of
8 the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes
9 effect July 1, 2021.
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