(1) The licensing and enforcement system modernization project account is created in the custody of the state treasurer. All receipts from *RCW 66.08.2601 and 66.08.2602 must be deposited into the account. Expenditures from the account may be only used for the expenses of replacing and modernizing the board's licensing, enforcement, and imaging system. The expenditures may be expended for automation of licenses and permits, electronic payments, data warehousing, project management and system testing, consulting, contracting, and staff time, and any necessary data conversion, software, hardware, and related equipment costs. Before making expenditures from the account, the board must conduct a thorough business process examination to ensure the new system provides efficient and effective service delivery. As part of the examination, the board must evaluate and articulate how any new system procurement serves the current and future needs of the internal and external stakeholders, the customers, and the public. Only the director of the board or the director's designee may authorize expenditures from the account. The account is subject to allotment procedures under chapter 43.88 RCW, but an appropriation is not required for expenditures.
(2) This section expires September 1, 2023.
[ 2019 c 164 § 1; 2015 3rd sp.s. c 26 § 3.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: RCW 66.08.2601 and 66.08.2602 expired June 30, 2017.
Effective date—2019 c 164: "This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect June 1, 2019." [ 2019 c 164 § 2.]
Contingent effective date—2015 3rd sp.s. c 26: "(1) This act takes effect only if, by June 30, 2016, the licensing and enforcement modernization project has received a funding allocation from the information technology pool appropriated in chapter 4, Laws of 2015 3rd sp. sess.
(2) The office of financial management must provide notice of the effective date of this act to the liquor and cannabis board, the chief clerk of the house of representatives, the secretary of the senate, the office of the code reviser, and others deemed appropriate by the office." [ 2015 3rd sp.s. c 26 § 4.] The licensing and enforcement modernization project received a funding allocation and therefore chapter 26, Laws of 2015 3rd sp.s. takes effect June 30, 2016.