5321-S.E AMH HASE PETE 045

ESSB 5321 - H AMD TO H AMD (H-2982.1/09) 698

By Representative Hasegawa

ADOPTED 4/16/2009

    On page 2, beginning on line 6 of the amendment, strike all of subsection (b) and insert the following:

    "(b) Beginning July 1, 2011, the maximum rate of tax imposed under this section is 0.85 percent for an annexed area in which the population is greater than eighteen thousand if the annexed area was, prior to November 1, 2008, officially designated as a potential annexation area by more than one city, one of which has a population greater than four hundred thousand."

EFFECT:   Allows the 0.85 percent rate for any city that has designated an area as a potential annexation area (PAA) if a city with a population greater than 400,000 has also designated the area as a PAA.

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