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                                ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 6342

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1988 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Energy & Utilities (originally sponsored by Senators Lee and Talmadge)

Read first time 1/27/88.

AN ACT Relating to light and power bills; adding a new section to chapter 82.16 RCW, and providing an effective date.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 82.16 RCW to read as follows:

          Any customer billing issued by a light or power business or gas distribution business that serves a total of more than five thousand customers and operates within the state shall include the following information:

          (1) The rates and amounts of taxes paid directly by the customer upon products or services rendered by the light and power business or gas distribution business; and

          (2) The rate, origin and approximate amount of each tax levied upon the revenue of the light and power business or gas distribution business and added as a component of the amount charged to the customer.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     This act shall take effect on January 1, 1989.