CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6077

Chapter 325, Laws of 1998

55th Legislature

1998 Regular Session

NONPROFIT HOSPICE AGENCIES--BUSINESS AND OCCUPATION TAX EXEMPTIONS

EFFECTIVE DATE: 6/11/98

Passed by the Senate February 4, 1998

YEAS 49 NAYS 0

BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

Passed by the House March 10, 1998

YEAS 94 NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE

I, Mike O=Connell, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6077 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 April 3, 1998

FILED

April 3, 1998 - 3:02 p.m.

GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State

State of Washington

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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6077

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Passed Legislature - 1998 Regular Session

State of Washington 55th Legislature 1997 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators McCaslin and Snyder)

Read first time 04/07/97.

AN ACT Relating to the business and occupation taxation of nonprofit organizations providing care for the terminally ill; and amending RCW 82.04.4289.

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

Sec. 1. RCW 82.04.4289 and 1993 c 492 s 305 are each amended to read as follows:

This chapter does not apply to amounts derived as compensation for services rendered to patients or from sales of prescription drugs as defined in RCW 82.08.0281 furnished as an integral part of services rendered to patients by a kidney dialysis facility operated as a nonprofit corporation, a nonprofit hospice agency licensed under chapter 70.127 RCW, and nursing homes((,)) and homes for unwed mothers operated as religious or charitable organizations, but only if no part of the net earnings received by such an institution inures directly or indirectly, to any person other than the institution entitled to deduction hereunder.