CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 6606

                    Chapter 10, Laws of 1994

                     CHAPTER NO. CORRECTED

                        53rd Legislature

                   1994 First Special Session

      BUSINESS AND OCCUPATION TAX GENERAL SURTAX REDUCTION

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  1/1/95

Passed by the Senate March 14, 1994   YEAS 43   NAYS 2 JOEL PRITCHARD President of the Senate Passed by the House March 14, 1994   YEAS 90   NAYS 3

CERTIFICATE I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 6606 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

BRIAN EBERSOLE Speaker of the       House of Representatives

MARTY BROWN                             Secretary

Approved April 6, 1994 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                       April 6, 1994 - 2:42 p.m.

MIKE LOWRY Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                         SENATE BILL 6606

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            AS RECOMMENDED BY THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

             Passed Legislature - 1994 Regular Session

State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

By Senators Rinehart, Gaspard, Quigley, Ludwig, A. Smith, Sutherland, Skratek, Haugen, McAuliffe, Sheldon, Bauer, Snyder, Spanel, Owen, Williams, Wojahn, Prentice, Fraser, Drew, L. Smith, Amondson, Bluechel, Schow, Morton, Cantu, Sellar, Newhouse, Anderson, Oke, McDonald, Nelson, Hochstatter, Roach, West, Moyer, Deccio, Erwin and Winsley

Read first time 02/17/94.  Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.

Repealing the general business and occupation surtax.

    AN ACT Relating to repealing the general business and occupation surtax under RCW 82.04.2201; amending RCW 82.04.2201; and providing an effective date.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 82.04.2201 and 1993 sp.s. c 25 s 204 are each amended to read as follows:

    There is levied and shall be collected for the period July 1, 1993, through June 30, 1997, from every person for the act or privilege of engaging in business activities, as a part of the tax imposed under RCW 82.04.220 through 82.04.280 and 82.04.290(3), except RCW 82.04.250(1) and 82.04.260(15), an additional tax equal to ((6.5)) 4.5 percent multiplied by the tax payable under those sections.

    To facilitate collection of these additional taxes, the department of revenue is authorized to adjust the basic rates of persons to which this section applies in such manner as to reflect the amount to the nearest one-thousandth of one percent of the additional tax hereby imposed, adjusting ten-thousandths equal to or greater than five ten-thousandths to the greater thousandth.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  This act shall take effect January 1, 1995.

    Passed the Senate March 14, 1994.

    Passed the House March 14, 1994.

Approved by the Governor April 6, 1994.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 6, 1994.