Providing funding for municipalities participating in the regional 911 emergency communications system.



ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1258

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2025 Regular Session

By House Finance (originally sponsored by Representatives Ormsby and Hill)

READ FIRST TIME 02/26/25.

AN ACT Relating to providing funding for municipalities participating in the regional 911 emergency communications system; and adding a new section to chapter 82.14B RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 82.14B RCW to read as follows:

(1) A county located east of the crest of the Cascade mountains with a population between 530,000 and 1,500,000 receiving tax revenues under this chapter that operates a regional 911 emergency communications system must transfer a portion of the tax revenues received under this chapter to the corresponding local government operating a municipal public safety answering point or receiving calls transferred from the regional 911 emergency communications system for disposition and dispatch. The portion of the tax to be transferred by a county operating a regional 911 communications system must be calculated as follows: