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                          HOUSE BILL 3151

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

 

By Representatives Huff and Alexander

 

Read first time 02/28/2000.  Referred to Committee on Appropriations.

Providing funding for transportation programs.


    AN ACT Relating to revenue sources for transportation purposes; adding a new section to chapter 43.79 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 82.32 RCW; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

 

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

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 43.79 RCW to read as follows:

    The transportation progress account is created in the state treasury.  Moneys in the account may be spent only after appropriation.  Expenditures from the account may be used only for transportation purposes.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 82.32 RCW to read as follows:

    (1) Ten and twenty-five one-hundredths percent of automobile-related sales and use tax revenue shall be deposited in the transportation progress account under section 1 of this act.

    (2) Two and forty-five one-hundredths percent of automobile-related sales and use tax revenue shall be deposited in the Puget Sound ferry operations account under RCW 47.60.530.

    (3) For the purposes of this section, "automobile-related sales and use tax revenue" includes:

    (a) Revenue from the taxes imposed in RCW 82.08.020(1) and 82.12.020 reported on returns filed by persons engaged in the following businesses:  New and used car dealers; automotive parts, accessories, and tire stores; automotive repair services, including body, paint and interior repair and maintenance, exhaust system repair, glass replacement shops, transmission repair, oil change and lubrication shops, car washes, and other automotive mechanical and electrical repair and maintenance businesses; automobile and other motor vehicle wholesalers, motor vehicle supplies and new part wholesalers, tire and tube wholesalers, and motor vehicle used part wholesalers; and

    (b) Revenue from the taxes imposed in RCW 82.08.020(1) and 82.12.020 collected by the department of licensing, county auditors, and subagents for the sale or use of motor vehicles.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3.  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, 2000.

 


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