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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6014
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State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1994 Regular Session
By Senate Committee on Government Operations (originally sponsored by Senators Haugen, Winsley, Vognild and Snyder)
Read first time 01/24/94.
AN ACT Relating to state fire protection services; amending RCW 84.52.043; adding a new section to chapter 84.52 RCW; and providing for submission of this act to a vote of the people.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 84.52.043 and 1993 c 337 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
Within and subject to the limitations imposed by RCW 84.52.050 as amended, the regular ad valorem tax levies upon real and personal property by the taxing districts hereafter named shall be as follows:
(1) Levies of the
senior taxing districts shall be as follows: (a) The levy by the state under
RCW 84.52.065 shall not exceed three dollars and sixty cents per thousand
dollars of assessed value adjusted to the state equalized value in accordance
with the indicated ratio fixed by the state department of revenue to be used
exclusively for the support of the common schools; (b) the levy by the state
under section 2 of this act shall not exceed two cents per thousand dollars of
assessed value adjusted to the state equalized value in accordance with the
indicated ratio fixed by the state department of revenue to be used exclusively
for state fire protection services; (c) the levy by any county shall not
exceed one dollar and eighty cents per thousand dollars of assessed value; (((c)))
(d) the levy by any road district shall not exceed two dollars and
twenty-five cents per thousand dollars of assessed value; and (((d))) (e)
the levy by any city or town shall not exceed three dollars and thirty-seven
and one-half cents per thousand dollars of assessed value. However any county
is hereby authorized to increase its levy from one dollar and eighty cents to a
rate not to exceed two dollars and forty-seven and one-half cents per thousand
dollars of assessed value for general county purposes if the total levies for
both the county and any road district within the county do not exceed four
dollars and five cents per thousand dollars of assessed value, and no other
taxing district has its levy reduced as a result of the increased county levy.
(2) The aggregate levies of junior taxing districts and senior taxing districts, other than the state, shall not exceed five dollars and ninety cents per thousand dollars of assessed valuation. The term "junior taxing districts" includes all taxing districts other than the state, counties, road districts, cities, towns, port districts, and public utility districts. The limitations provided in this subsection shall not apply to: (a) Levies at the rates provided by existing law by or for any port or public utility district; (b) excess property tax levies authorized in Article VII, section 2 of the state Constitution; (c) levies for acquiring conservation futures as authorized under RCW 84.34.230; (d) levies for emergency medical care or emergency medical services imposed under RCW 84.52.069; and (e) levies to finance affordable housing for very low-income housing imposed under RCW 84.52.105.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 84.52 RCW to read as follows:
Subject to the limitations in RCW 84.55.010, in each year the state shall levy for collection in the following year for state fire protection responsibilities within the department of community, trade, and economic development a tax of two cents per thousand dollars of assessed value upon the assessed valuation of all taxable property within the state adjusted to the state equalized value in accordance with the indicated ratio fixed by the state department of revenue.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. This act shall be submitted to the people for their adoption and ratification, or rejection, at the next succeeding general election to be held in this state, in accordance with Article II, section 1 of the state Constitution, as amended, and the laws adopted to facilitate the operation thereof.
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