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SENATE BILL 6781
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State of Washington 54th Legislature 1996 Regular Session
By Senators Swecker and Zarelli
Read first time 03/01/96. Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.
AN ACT Relating to property tax levies for schools; and amending RCW 84.52.067 and 84.52.053.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 84.52.067 and 1967 ex.s. c 133 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
All property taxes levied by the state for the support of common schools shall be paid into the general fund of the state treasury as provided in RCW 84.56.280. Beginning in calendar year 1998, ten percent of the property taxes collected by the state for the support of common schools in the previous year shall be distributed to the school districts in the state to replace any levy for maintenance and operation that has been approved by the voters under RCW 84.52.053. This percentage shall increase to twenty percent in 1999, thirty percent in 2000, forty percent in 2001, fifty percent in 2002, sixty percent in 2003, seventy percent in 2004, eighty percent in 2005, ninety percent in 2006, and one hundred percent in 2007 and thereafter. If insufficient moneys are available to completely replace the levies of all school districts for maintenance and operation that have been approved by the voters under RCW 84.52.053, the moneys shall replace the levy for a school district in the proportion that the levy bears to all maintenance and operation levies that has been approved by the voters under RCW 84.52.053 for all school districts.
Sec. 2. RCW 84.52.053 and 1994 c 116 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
The limitations imposed by RCW 84.52.050 through 84.52.056, and 84.52.043 shall not prevent the levy of taxes by school districts, when authorized so to do by the voters of such school district in the manner and for the purposes and number of years allowable under Article VII, section 2(a) of the Constitution of this state. Elections for such taxes shall be held in the year in which the levy is made or, in the case of propositions authorizing two-year levies for maintenance and operation support of a school district, authorizing two-year levies for transportation vehicle funds established in RCW 28A.160.130, or authorizing two-year through six-year levies to support the construction, modernization, or remodeling of school facilities, in the year in which the first annual levy is made: PROVIDED, That once additional tax levies have been authorized for maintenance and operation support of a school district for a two-year period, no further additional tax levies for maintenance and operation support of the district for that period may be authorized.
A special election may be called and the time therefor fixed by the board of school directors, by giving notice thereof by publication in the manner provided by law for giving notices of general elections, at which special election the proposition authorizing such excess levy shall be submitted in such form as to enable the voters favoring the proposition to vote "yes" and those opposed thereto to vote "no".
Any levy for maintenance and operation that has been approved by the voters under this section shall be reduced in any year by any distribution to be received under RCW 84.52.067 in that year.
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