CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

              ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1957

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                        54th Legislature

                    1995 2nd Special Session

Passed by the House May 24, 1995

  Yeas 89   Nays 4

 

 

 

 

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

 

Passed by the Senate May 24, 1995

  Yeas 42   Nays 4

               CERTIFICATE

 

I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1957 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

 

President of the Senate

 

                               Chief Clerk

 

 

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

                                     FILED

          

 

 

Governor of the State of Washington

                        Secretary of State

                       State of Washington

                  _______________________________________________

 

                       ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1957

                  _______________________________________________

 

                   Passed Legislature - 1995 2nd Special Session

 

State of Washington              54th Legislature             1995 Regular Session

 

By House Committee on Finance (originally sponsored by Representatives B. Thomas, Carrell, Mulliken, Campbell, Foreman, Van Luven, Benton, L. Thomas, Crouse, Backlund, Elliot, McMahan, Smith, Stevens and Schoesler)

 

Read first time 03/06/95.

 

Reducing the state property tax levy.


     AN ACT Relating to reducing the state property tax levy for 1996 and thereafter; and adding a new section to chapter 84.55 RCW.

 

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

 

     NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 84.55 RCW to read as follows:

     (1) As used in this section, "full levy" means the levy amount that would be allowed otherwise under this chapter without regard to this section.

     (2) The state levy for collection in 1996 shall be reduced by five percent of the full levy for that year.  State levies for collection after 1996 shall not exceed the amount that would be allowed otherwise under this chapter if the state levy for collection in 1996 had been set at ninety-five percent of the full levy for that year.

     (3) Levies collected before 1996 shall not be used as a base for calculating limits for state levies for collection after 1996.

 

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