BILL REQ. #:  H-2775.2 

READ FIRST TIME 03/05/07.   

     AN ACT Relating to establishing a state tax policy that prohibits employers claiming certain tax incentives from requiring employees to participate in certain communications about political, religious, or labor organizing matters; and creating a new section.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   The joint legislative audit and review committee shall study the feasibility of implementing a state tax policy disallowing employers from claiming tax preferences if the employer requires employee participation in employer-to-employee communications regarding certain political, religious, or labor organizing positions of the employer. The committee shall provide the conclusions of its study in the form of a report. The report, in its analysis of implementing policy to accomplish this objective, shall address: Constitutional and other legal issues; revenue and other economic impacts; interaction with collective bargaining agreements; difficulty of tax administration and enforcement; efforts in other states to implement similar policy; and types of industries that are likely to be impacted. The report is due to the fiscal committees of the legislature by December 1, 2007.