CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5868

Chapter 453, Laws of 1997

55th Legislature

1997 Regular Session

CLASSIFICATION OF PRODUCERS OF ALUMINUM MASTER ALLOYS FOR BUSINESS AND OCCUPATION TAX PURPOSES

EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/1/97

Passed by the Senate April 8, 1997

YEAS 43 NAYS 0

BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

Passed by the House April 17, 1997

YEAS 83 NAYS 14

CERTIFICATE

I, Mike O=Connell, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5868 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

House of Representatives

MIKE O'CONNELL

Secretary

Approved May 20, 1997

FILED

May 20, 1997 - 4:36 p.m.

GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State

State of Washington

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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5868

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Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

State of Washington 55th Legislature 1997 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senator Sellar)

Read first time 03/31/97.

AN ACT Relating to excise taxation of producers of aluminum master alloys; amending RCW 82.04.110; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

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

Sec. 1. RCW 82.04.110 and 1971 ex.s. c 186 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

"Manufacturer" means every person who, either directly or by contracting with others for the necessary labor or mechanical services, manufactures for sale or for commercial or industrial use from his or her own materials or ingredients any articles, substances or commodities. When the owner of equipment or facilities furnishes, or sells to the customer prior to manufacture, all or a portion of the materials that become a part or whole of the manufactured article, the department shall prescribe equitable rules for determining tax liability: PROVIDED, That a person who produces aluminum master alloys is a processor for hire rather than a manufacturer, regardless of the portion of the aluminum provided by that person's customer: PROVIDED FURTHER, That a nonresident of this state who is the owner of materials processed for it in this state by a processor for hire shall not be deemed to be engaged in business in this state as a manufacturer because of the performance of such processing work for it in this state: PROVIDED FURTHER, That the owner of materials from which a nuclear fuel assembly is made for it by a processor for hire shall not be subject to tax under this chapter as a manufacturer of the fuel assembly.

For the purposes of this section, "aluminum master alloy" means an alloy registered with the Aluminum Association as a grain refiner or a hardener alloy using the American National Standards Institute designating system H35.3.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect July 1, 1997.