| Passed by the House April 20, 2007 Yeas 97 ________________________________________ Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 20, 2007 Yeas 45 ________________________________________ President of the Senate | I, Richard Nafziger, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1674 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth. ________________________________________ Chief Clerk | |
| Approved ________________________________________ Governor of the State of Washington | Secretary of State State of Washington |
| State of Washington | 60th Legislature | 2007 Regular Session |
Read first time 01/24/2007. Referred to Committee on State Government & Tribal Affairs.
AN ACT Relating to authorizing the governor to enter into a cigarette tax contract with the Spokane Tribe; amending RCW 43.06.460; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1 RCW 43.06.460 and 2005 c 208 s 1 are each amended to read
as follows:
(1) The governor is authorized to enter into cigarette tax
contracts with the Squaxin Island Tribe, the Nisqually Tribe, Tulalip
Tribes, the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, the Quinault Nation, the
Jamestown S'Klallam Indian Tribe, the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe, the
Stillaguamish Tribe, the Sauk-Suiattle Tribe, the Skokomish Indian
Tribe, the Yakama Nation, the Suquamish Tribe, the Nooksack Indian
Tribe, the Lummi Nation, the Chehalis Confederated Tribes, the Upper
Skagit Tribe, the Snoqualmie Tribe, the Swinomish Tribe, the Samish
Indian Nation, the Quileute Tribe, the Kalispel Tribe, the Confederated
Tribes of the Colville Reservation, the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, the Lower
Elwha Klallam Tribe, ((and)) the Makah Tribe, the Hoh Tribe, and the
Spokane Tribe. Each contract adopted under this section shall provide
that the tribal cigarette tax rate be one hundred percent of the state
cigarette and state and local sales and use taxes within three years of
enacting the tribal tax and shall be set no lower than eighty percent
of the state cigarette and state and local sales and use taxes during
the three-year phase-in period. The three-year phase-in period shall
be shortened by three months each quarter the number of cartons of
nontribal manufactured cigarettes is at least ten percent or more than
the quarterly average number of cartons of nontribal manufactured
cigarettes from the six-month period preceding the imposition of the
tribal tax under the contract. Sales at a retailer operation not in
existence as of the date a tribal tax under this section is imposed are
subject to the full rate of the tribal tax under the contract. The
tribal cigarette tax is in lieu of the state cigarette and state and
local sales and use taxes, as provided in RCW 43.06.455(3).
(2) A cigarette tax contract under this section is subject to RCW
43.06.455.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2 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
July 1, 2007.