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H-0252.1
                                 HOUSE BILL 1183
     State of Washington         67th Legislature     2021 Regular Session
     By Representatives Caldier and J. Johnson
     Read first time 01/13/21.     Referred to Committee on Housing, Human
     Services & Veterans.
      AN ACT Relating to creating the home sharing support grant
  program; amending RCW 36.22.179 and 36.22.1791; and adding a new
  section to chapter 43.185C RCW.
  BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
     NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 43.185C
 RCW to read as follows:
     (1) The home sharing support grant program is created in the
 department. The purpose of this program is to provide financial
 support to nonprofit organizations that operate home sharing
 programs.
     (2) The department shall manage, oversee, and evaluate home
 sharing support grant program applications and shall award grants
 annually. The department may establish application procedures and
 criteria for the receipt of grants.
     (3) Grants awarded under this section may be used only for
 administrative costs of home sharing programs.
     (4) For purposes of this section, "home sharing program" means a
 program   operated  by   a  nonprofit   organization  in   which  the
 organization assists homeless persons, or persons at risk of becoming
 homeless, with locating individuals seeking to share their residences
 and facilitates meetings between program applicants who may choose to
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  enter into a home sharing arrangement on mutually agreeable terms.
  Services provided by home sharing programs may include, but are not
  limited to, screening of program applicants for compatibility,
  background checks of applicants, case management, and conflict
  resolution.
     Sec. 2.   RCW 36.22.179 and 2019 c 136 s 2 are each amended to
 read as follows:
     (1) In addition to the surcharge authorized in RCW 36.22.178, and
 except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, an additional
 surcharge of sixty-two dollars shall be charged by the county auditor
 for each document recorded, which will be in addition to any other
 charge allowed by law. Except as provided in subsection (4) of this
 section, the funds collected pursuant to this section are to be
 distributed and used as follows:
     (a) The auditor shall retain two percent for collection of the
 fee, and of the remainder shall remit sixty percent to the county to
 be deposited into a fund that must be used by the county and its
 cities and towns to accomplish the purposes of chapter 484, Laws of
 2005, six percent of which may be used by the county for the
 collection and local distribution of these funds and administrative
 costs related to its homeless housing plan, and the remainder for
 programs which directly accomplish the goals of the county's local
 homeless housing plan, except that for each city in the county which
 elects as authorized in RCW 43.185C.080 to operate its own local
 homeless housing program, a percentage of the surcharge assessed
 under this section equal to the percentage of the city's local
 portion of the real estate excise tax collected by the county shall
 be transmitted at least quarterly to the city treasurer, without any
 deduction for county administrative costs, for use by the city for
 program costs which directly contribute to the goals of the city's
 local homeless housing plan; of the funds received by the city, it
 may use six percent for administrative costs for its homeless housing
 program.
     (b) The auditor shall remit the remaining funds to the state
 treasurer for deposit in the home security fund account to be used as
 follows:
     (i) The department may use twelve and one-half percent of this
 amount for administration of the program established in RCW
 43.185C.020, including the costs of creating the statewide homeless
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 housing strategic plan, measuring performance, providing technical
 assistance to local governments, and managing the homeless housing
 grant program.
     (ii) The remaining eighty-seven and one-half percent of this
 amount must be used as follows:
     (A) At least forty-five percent must be set aside for the use of
 private rental housing payments; and
     (B) All remaining funds are to be used by the department to:
     (I) Provide housing and shelter for homeless people including,
 but not limited to: Grants to operate, repair, and staff shelters;
 grants to operate transitional housing; partial payments for rental
 assistance;   consolidated  emergency   assistance;  overnight   youth
 shelters; grants and vouchers designated for victims of human
 trafficking and their families; and emergency shelter assistance;
 ((and))
     (II) Fund the home sharing support grant program established in
 section 1 of this act; and
     (III) Fund the homeless housing grant program.
     (2) A county issuing general obligation bonds pursuant to RCW
 36.67.010, to carry out the purposes of subsection (1)(a) of this
 section, may provide that such bonds be made payable from any
 surcharge provided for in subsection (1)(a) of this section and may
 pledge such surcharges to the repayment of the bonds.
     (3) The surcharge imposed in this section does not apply to (a)
 assignments or substitutions of previously recorded deeds of trust,
 (b) documents recording a birth, marriage, divorce, or death, (c) any
 recorded documents otherwise exempted from a recording fee or
 additional surcharges under state law, (d) marriage licenses issued
 by the county auditor, or (e) documents recording a federal, state,
 county, or city lien or satisfaction of lien.
     (4) Ten dollars of the surcharge imposed under subsection (1) of
 this section must be distributed to the counties to carry out the
 purposes of subsection (1)(a) of this section.
     (5) For purposes of this section, "private rental housing" means
 housing owned by a private landlord and includes housing owned by a
 nonprofit housing entity.
     Sec. 3.   RCW 36.22.1791 and 2019 c 136 s 3 are each amended to
 read as follows:
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     (1) In addition to the surcharges authorized in RCW 36.22.178 and
 36.22.179, and except as provided in subsection (2) of this section,
 the county auditor shall charge an additional surcharge of eight
 dollars for each document recorded, which is in addition to any other
 charge allowed by law. The funds collected under this section are to
 be distributed and used as follows:
     (a) The auditor shall remit ninety percent to the county to be
 deposited into a fund six percent of which may be used by the county
 for administrative costs related to its homeless housing plan, and
 the remainder for programs that directly accomplish the goals of the
 county's local homeless housing plan, except that for each city in
 the county that elects, as authorized in RCW 43.185C.080, to operate
 its own local homeless housing program, a percentage of the surcharge
 assessed under this section equal to the percentage of the city's
 local portion of the real estate excise tax collected by the county
 must be transmitted at least quarterly to the city treasurer for use
 by the city for program costs that directly contribute to the goals
 of the city's local homeless housing plan.
     (b) The auditor shall remit the remaining funds to the state
 treasurer for deposit in the home security fund account. The
 department may use the funds for administering the program
 established in RCW 43.185C.020, including the costs of creating and
 updating the statewide homeless housing strategic plan, measuring
 performance, providing technical assistance to local governments, and
 managing the homeless housing grant program. Remaining funds may also
 be used to:
     (i) Provide housing and shelter for homeless people including,
 but not limited to: Grants to operate, repair, and staff shelters;
 grants to operate transitional housing; partial payments for rental
 assistance;   consolidated  emergency   assistance;  overnight  youth
 shelters; grants and vouchers designated for victims of human
 trafficking and their families; and emergency shelter assistance;
 ((and))
     (ii) Fund the home sharing support grant program established in
 section 1 of this act; and
     (iii) Fund the homeless housing grant program.
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     (2) The surcharge imposed in this section does not apply to
 assignments or substitutions of previously recorded deeds of trust or
 to documents recording a federal lien or satisfaction of lien.
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Statutes affected: 
Original Bill: 36.22.179, 36.22.1791
Bill: 36.22.179, 36.22.1791