HB 2679 - DIGEST

     Provides that local sales and use tax revenue collected by a city that owns and operates a public transportation system and that has, before January 1, 1998, officially supported establishment of a public transportation benefit area within which the system would have been included that was not approved or funded at an election conducted since 1993 for those purposes under chapter 36.57A RCW, will be counted as locally generated tax revenues for the purposes of apportionment and distribution, in the manner prescribed by chapter 82.44 RCW, of the proceeds of the motor vehicle excise tax authorized under RCW 35.58.273.