CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        HOUSE BILL 2639

 

 

 

 

                        57th Legislature

                      2002 Regular Session

 

Passed by the House February 17, 2002

  Yeas 94   Nays 0

 

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives

     

 

 

 

 

 

Passed by the Senate March 7, 2002

  Yeas 48   Nays 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Cynthia Zehnder, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 2639  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

 

 

 

President of the Senate

 

 

 

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

                                FILED

                

 

Governor of the State of Washington

                   Secretary of State

                  State of Washington

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                          HOUSE BILL 2639

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             Passed Legislature - 2002 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      57th Legislature     2002 Regular Session

 

By Representatives Ruderman, Crouse, Bush, Nixon, Casada, Carrell, Anderson, Hunt, Van Luven, Talcott, Benson, Murray, Miloscia and Esser

 

Read first time 01/23/2002.  Referred to Committee on Finance.

Continuing a moratorium that prohibits a city or town from imposing a specific fee or tax on an internet service provider.


    AN ACT Relating to extending the prohibition on taxes or fees specific to internet service providers; and amending RCW 35.21.717.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 35.21.717 and 1999 c 307 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    Until July 1, ((2002)) 2004, a city or town may not impose any new taxes or fees specific to internet service providers.  A city or town may tax internet service providers under generally applicable business taxes or fees, at a rate not to exceed the rate applied to a general service classification.  For the purposes of this section, "internet service" has the same meaning as in RCW 82.04.297.

 

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