CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 2190

                        54th Legislature

                      1996 Regular Session

Passed by the House February 5, 1996   Yeas 96   Nays 0 Speaker of the        House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 7, 1996   Yeas 48   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 2190 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                                  HOUSE BILL 2190

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                     Passed Legislature - 1996 Regular Session

State of Washington              54th Legislature             1996 Regular Session

By Representatives Dyer and B. Thomas

Read first time 01/08/96.  Referred to Committee on Finance.

Exempting railroad associations from certain fees.

     AN ACT Relating to fees paid by railroad associations that are charitable organizations; and amending RCW 81.24.010.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 81.24.010 and 1990 c 48 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) Every company subject to regulation by the commission, except auto transportation companies, steamboat companies, wharfingers or warehousemen, motor freight carriers, and storage warehousemen shall, on or before the date specified by the commission for filing annual reports under RCW 81.04.080, file with the commission a statement on oath showing its gross operating revenue from intrastate operations for the preceding calendar year, or portion thereof, and pay to the commission a fee equal to one-tenth of one percent of the first fifty thousand dollars of gross operating revenue, plus two-tenths of one percent of any gross operating revenue in excess of fifty thousand dollars, except railroad companies which shall each pay to the commission a fee equal to one and one-half percent of its intrastate gross operating revenue((:  PROVIDED, That)).  However, the fee shall in no case be less than one dollar.  Any railroad association that qualifies as a not‑for‑profit charitable organization under the federal internal revenue code section 501(c)(3) is exempt from the fee required under this subsection.

(2) The percentage rates of gross operating revenue to be paid in any one year may be decreased by the commission for any class of companies subject to the payment of such fees, by general order entered before March 1st of such year, and for such purpose such companies shall be classified as follows:  Railroad, express, sleeping car, and toll bridge companies shall constitute class two.  Every other company subject to regulation by the commission, for which regulatory fees are not otherwise fixed by law shall pay fees as herein provided and shall constitute additional classes according to kinds of businesses engaged in.

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