BILL REQ. #:  H-3714.1 

Read first time 01/19/2004.   Referred to Committee on Technology, Telecommunications & Energy.

     AN ACT Relating to the distribution of receipts from the privilege tax imposed on public utility districts operating facilities for the generation, distribution, and sale of electric energy; amending RCW 54.28.010; and creating a new section.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 54.28.010 and 1977 ex.s. c 366 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
     As used in this chapter:
     (1) "Operating property" means all of the property utilized by a public utility district in the operation of a plant or system for the generation, transmission, or distribution of electric energy for sale;
     (2) "Taxing districts" means counties, cities, towns, school districts, and road districts;
     (3) "Distributes to consumers" means the sale of electric energy to ultimate consumers thereof, and does not include sales of electric energy for resale by the purchaser;
     (4) "Wholesale value" means all costs of a public utility district associated with the generation and transmission of energy from its own generation and transmission system to the point or points of inter- connection with a distribution system owned and used by a district to distribute such energy to consumers, or in the event a distribution system owned by a district is not used to distribute such energy, then the term means the gross revenues derived by a district from the sale of such energy to consumers;
     (5) "Thermal electric generating facility" means a steam-powered electrical energy producing facility utilizing nuclear or fossil fuels;
     (6) "Placed in operation" means delivery of energy into a transmission or distribution system for use or sale in such a manner as to establish a value accruing to the power plant operator, except operation incidental to testing or startup adjustments;
     (7) "Impacted area" for a thermal electric generating facility on a federal reservation means that area in the state lying within thirty-five statute miles of the most commonly used entrance of the federal reservation ((and which is south of the southern boundary of township fifteen north)).

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   Section 1 of this act applies to tax distributions made after June 1, 2005.