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                                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 446

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Representatives Thomas, Smitherman, B. Williams, Baugher, Schoon, Tanner, Silver, Hargrove, L. Smith, Ballard, Doty, Vander Stoep, May, Van Luven, van Dyke, Walker, Dobbs, J. Williams, Lewis, Hastings, Long, Isaacson, Zellinsky, Hine, Kremen, Taylor, Schmidt and Bristow

Read first time 2/1/85 and referred to Committee on Trade & Economic Development.

AN ACT Relating to duties of the business license center; and amending RCW 19.02.038.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 13, chapter 182, Laws of 1982 and RCW 19.02.038 are each amended to read as follows:

          The business license center shall, with the assistance and full cooperation of the board of review, conclude the following tasks by the dates indicated:

          (1) By February 1, 1982, ensure that packets containing the forms for the use of the master licensing system, as well as forms for those licenses commonly needed to begin most kinds of businesses, and materials explaining the use of the forms, the system, and the center are available at each headquarters and each field office of the departments of revenue, employment security, labor and industry, and licensing and at the office of the secretary of state;

          (2) By July 1, 1982, revise the application forms distributed in subsection (1) of this section such that all of the forms have a common format;

          (3) By January 1, 1983:

          (a) Identify those licenses needed to begin most kinds of businesses in the state that should be consolidated and processed under the master license system;

          (b) Develop a checklist for each major category of industry that identifies the license renewal requirements for licenses not included in the master license system;

          (c) Identify a schedule for implementing the long-range goals of the business license center, including the use of a common data base by state agencies;

          (d) For licenses not processed under the master license system and for which renewal fees are fixed rather than variable, develop a schedule for processing the licenses under the system;

          (e) Authorize those offices of the various county auditors that are served by automated fee deposit systems to act as agents for the center to collect fees payable under the master license system;

          (4) By July 1, 1983:

          (a) Assign a common business identifier to each master license system account for use by all state agencies;

          (b) Develop a common format for issuing all licenses to businesses for which inspections are not required; ((and))

          (5) By June 30, 1985, use the computer services of an agency of the state that has been designated as the state's principal computer services agency, if one has been so designated; and

(6) By January 1, 1986, provide a master license and assign a common business identifier to any person requesting to be registered with the department of revenue under RCW 82.32.030 and provide, where lawful, any other license requested by the person that is available as of the date the master application is received, from the business license center.