BILL REQ. #:  H-5051.3 

Read first time 02/13/10.   Referred to Committee on Finance.

     AN ACT Relating to imposing a tax on home and community based services to fund services for seniors and people with disabilities; amending RCW 82.16.020 and 82.16.020; reenacting and amending RCW 82.16.010 and 82.16.010; adding a new section to chapter 82.16 RCW; providing effective dates; and providing an expiration date.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 82.16.010 and 2009 c 535 s 1110 and 2009 c 469 s 701 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
     For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise required by the context:
     (1) "Community residential service business" means the business of providing habilitation, instruction, and support. "Community residential services business" also means a business that is licensed and/or certified by the aging and disabilities services administration at the department of social and health services to provide the services described in this subsection.
     (2) "Adult day health business" is the business of providing personal care, meals, social activities, and therapeutic services at adult day health centers.
     (3) "Home care agency business" is the business of administering or providing nonmedical home care services, such as assistance with activities such as personal hygiene, dressing and undressing, eating, transferring from bed to chair, and back, toileting, ambulation, housework, meal prep, and shopping, directly or through a contract arrangement to clients in places of permanent or temporary residence. "Home care agency business" also means a business that is licensed under chapter 70.127 RCW to provide the services described in this subsection.
     (4) "Express business" means the business of carrying property for public hire on the line of any common carrier operated in this state, when such common carrier is not owned or leased by the person engaging in such business.
     (((2))) (5) "Gas distribution business" means the business of operating a plant or system for the production or distribution for hire or sale of gas, whether manufactured or natural.
     (((3))) (6) "Gross income" means the value proceeding or accruing from the performance of the particular public service or transportation business involved, including operations incidental thereto, but without any deduction on account of the cost of the commodity furnished or sold, the cost of materials used, labor costs, interest, discount, delivery costs, taxes, or any other expense whatsoever paid or accrued and without any deduction on account of losses.
     (((4))) (7) "Light and power business" means the business of operating a plant or system for the generation, production or distribution of electrical energy for hire or sale and/or for the wheeling of electricity for others.
     (((5))) (8) "Log transportation business" means the business of transporting logs by truck, other than exclusively upon private roads.
     (((6))) (9) "Motor transportation business" means the business (except urban transportation business) of operating any motor propelled vehicle by which persons or property of others are conveyed for hire, and includes, but is not limited to, the operation of any motor propelled vehicle as an auto transportation company (except urban transportation business), common carrier, or contract carrier as defined by RCW 81.68.010 and 81.80.010. However, "motor transportation business" does not mean or include: (a) A log transportation business; or (b) the transportation of logs or other forest products exclusively upon private roads or private highways.
     (((7))) (10)(a) "Public service business" means any of the businesses defined in subsections (((1), (2), (4), (6), (8), (9), (10), (12), and (13))) (4), (5), (7), (9), (11), (12), (13), (15), and (16) of this section or any business subject to control by the state, or having the powers of eminent domain and the duties incident thereto, or any business hereafter declared by the legislature to be of a public service nature, except telephone business and low-level radioactive waste site operating companies as redefined in RCW 81.04.010. It includes, among others, without limiting the scope hereof: Airplane transportation, boom, dock, ferry, pipe line, toll bridge, toll logging road, water transportation and wharf businesses.
     (b) The definitions in this subsection (((7))) (10)(b) apply throughout this subsection (((7))) (10).
     (i) "Competitive telephone service" has the same meaning as in RCW 82.04.065.
     (ii) "Network telephone service" means the providing by any person of access to a telephone network, telephone network switching service, toll service, or coin telephone services, or the providing of telephonic, video, data, or similar communication or transmission for hire, via a telephone network, toll line or channel, cable, microwave, or similar communication or transmission system. "Network telephone service" includes the provision of transmission to and from the site of an internet provider via a telephone network, toll line or channel, cable, microwave, or similar communication or transmission system. "Network telephone service" does not include the providing of competitive telephone service, the providing of cable television service, the providing of broadcast services by radio or television stations, nor the provision of internet access as defined in RCW 82.04.297, including the reception of dial-in connection, provided at the site of the internet service provider.
     (iii) "Telephone business" means the business of providing network telephone service. It includes cooperative or farmer line telephone companies or associations operating an exchange.
     (iv) "Telephone service" means competitive telephone service or network telephone service, or both, as defined in (b)(i) and (ii) of this subsection.
     (((8))) (11) "Railroad business" means the business of operating any railroad, by whatever power operated, for public use in the conveyance of persons or property for hire. It ((shall)) may not, however, include any business herein defined as an urban transportation business.
     (((9))) (12) "Railroad car business" means the business of operating stock cars, furniture cars, refrigerator cars, fruit cars, poultry cars, tank cars, sleeping cars, parlor cars, buffet cars, tourist cars, or any other kinds of cars used for transportation of property or persons upon the line of any railroad operated in this state when such railroad is not owned or leased by the person engaging in such business.
     (((10))) (13) "Telegraph business" means the business of affording telegraphic communication for hire.
     (((11))) (14) "Tugboat business" means the business of operating tugboats, towboats, wharf boats or similar vessels in the towing or pushing of vessels, barges or rafts for hire.
     (((12))) (15) "Urban transportation business" means the business of operating any vehicle for public use in the conveyance of persons or property for hire, insofar as (a) operating entirely within the corporate limits of any city or town, or within five miles of the corporate limits thereof, or (b) operating entirely within and between cities and towns whose corporate limits are not more than five miles apart or within five miles of the corporate limits of either thereof. Included herein, but without limiting the scope hereof, is the business of operating passenger vehicles of every type and also the business of operating cartage, pickup, or delivery services, including in such services the collection and distribution of property arriving from or destined to a point within or without the state, whether or not such collection or distribution be made by the person performing a local or interstate line-haul of such property.
     (((13))) (16) "Water distribution business" means the business of operating a plant or system for the distribution of water for hire or sale.
     (((14))) (17) The meaning attributed, in chapter 82.04 RCW, to the term "tax year," "person," "value proceeding or accruing," "business," "engaging in business," "in this state," "within this state," "cash discount" and "successor" shall apply equally in the provisions of this chapter.

Sec. 2   RCW 82.16.010 and 2009 c 535 s 1110 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
     For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise required by the context:
     (1) "Community residential service business" means the business of providing habilitation, instruction, and support. "Community residential services business" also means a business that is licensed and/or certified by the aging and disabilities services administration at the department of social and health services to provide the services described in this subsection.
     (2) "Adult day health business" is the business of providing personal care, meals, social activities, and therapeutic services at adult day health centers.
     (3) "Home care agency business" is the business of administering or providing nonmedical home care services, such as assistance with activities such as personal hygiene, dressing and undressing, eating, transferring from bed to chair, and back, toileting, ambulation, housework, meal prep, and shopping, directly or through a contract arrangement to clients in places of permanent or temporary residence. "Home care agency business" also means a business that is licensed under chapter 70.127 RCW to provide the services described in this subsection.
     (4) "Express business" means the business of carrying property for public hire on the line of any common carrier operated in this state, when such common carrier is not owned or leased by the person engaging in such business.
     (((2))) (5) "Gas distribution business" means the business of operating a plant or system for the production or distribution for hire or sale of gas, whether manufactured or natural.
     (((3))) (6) "Gross income" means the value proceeding or accruing from the performance of the particular public service or transportation business involved, including operations incidental thereto, but without any deduction on account of the cost of the commodity furnished or sold, the cost of materials used, labor costs, interest, discount, delivery costs, taxes, or any other expense whatsoever paid or accrued and without any deduction on account of losses.
     (((4))) (7) "Light and power business" means the business of operating a plant or system for the generation, production or distribution of electrical energy for hire or sale and/or for the wheeling of electricity for others.
     (((5))) (8) "Motor transportation business" means the business (except urban transportation business) of operating any motor propelled vehicle by which persons or property of others are conveyed for hire, and includes, but is not limited to, the operation of any motor propelled vehicle as an auto transportation company (except urban transportation business), common carrier, or contract carrier as defined by RCW 81.68.010 and 81.80.010. However, "motor transportation business" does not mean or include the transportation of logs or other forest products exclusively upon private roads or private highways.
     (((6))) (9)(a) "Public service business" means any of the businesses defined in subsections (((1), (2), (4), (5), (7), (8), (9), (11), and (12))) (4), (5), (7), (8), (10), (11), (12), (14), and (15) of this section or any business subject to control by the state, or having the powers of eminent domain and the duties incident thereto, or any business hereafter declared by the legislature to be of a public service nature, except telephone business and low-level radioactive waste site operating companies as redefined in RCW 81.04.010. It includes, among others, without limiting the scope hereof: Airplane transportation, boom, dock, ferry, pipe line, toll bridge, toll logging road, water transportation and wharf businesses.
     (b) The definitions in this subsection (((6))) (9)(b) apply throughout this subsection (((6))) (9).
     (i) "Competitive telephone service" has the same meaning as in RCW 82.04.065.
     (ii) "Network telephone service" means the providing by any person of access to a telephone network, telephone network switching service, toll service, or coin telephone services, or the providing of telephonic, video, data, or similar communication or transmission for hire, via a telephone network, toll line or channel, cable, microwave, or similar communication or transmission system. "Network telephone service" includes the provision of transmission to and from the site of an internet provider via a telephone network, toll line or channel, cable, microwave, or similar communication or transmission system. "Network telephone service" does not include the providing of competitive telephone service, the providing of cable television service, the providing of broadcast services by radio or television stations, nor the provision of internet access as defined in RCW 82.04.297, including the reception of dial-in connection, provided at the site of the internet service provider.
     (iii) "Telephone business" means the business of providing network telephone service. It includes cooperative or farmer line telephone companies or associations operating an exchange.
     (iv) "Telephone service" means competitive telephone service or network telephone service, or both, as defined in (b)(i) and (ii) of this subsection.
     (((7))) (10) "Railroad business" means the business of operating any railroad, by whatever power operated, for public use in the conveyance of persons or property for hire. It ((shall)) may not, however, include any business herein defined as an urban transportation business.
     (((8))) (11) "Railroad car business" means the business of operating stock cars, furniture cars, refrigerator cars, fruit cars, poultry cars, tank cars, sleeping cars, parlor cars, buffet cars, tourist cars, or any other kinds of cars used for transportation of property or persons upon the line of any railroad operated in this state when such railroad is not owned or leased by the person engaging in such business.
     (((9))) (12) "Telegraph business" means the business of affording telegraphic communication for hire.
     (((10))) (13) "Tugboat business" means the business of operating tugboats, towboats, wharf boats or similar vessels in the towing or pushing of vessels, barges or rafts for hire.
     (((11))) (14) "Urban transportation business" means the business of operating any vehicle for public use in the conveyance of persons or property for hire, insofar as (a) operating entirely within the corporate limits of any city or town, or within five miles of the corporate limits thereof, or (b) operating entirely within and between cities and towns whose corporate limits are not more than five miles apart or within five miles of the corporate limits of either thereof. Included herein, but without limiting the scope hereof, is the business of operating passenger vehicles of every type and also the business of operating cartage, pickup, or delivery services, including in such services the collection and distribution of property arriving from or destined to a point within or without the state, whether or not such collection or distribution be made by the person performing a local or interstate line-haul of such property.
     (((12))) (15) "Water distribution business" means the business of operating a plant or system for the distribution of water for hire or sale.
     (((13))) (16) The meaning attributed, in chapter 82.04 RCW, to the term "tax year," "person," "value proceeding or accruing," "business," "engaging in business," "in this state," "within this state," "cash discount" and "successor" shall apply equally in the provisions of this chapter.

Sec. 3   RCW 82.16.020 and 2009 c 469 s 702 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) There is levied and ((there shall be)) collected from every person a tax for the act or privilege of engaging within this state in any one or more of the businesses herein mentioned. The tax ((shall be)) is equal to the gross income of the business, multiplied by the rate set out after the business, as follows:
     (a) Express, sewerage collection, and telegraph businesses: Three and six-tenths percent;
     (b) Light and power business: Three and sixty-two one-hundredths percent;
     (c) Gas distribution business: Three and six-tenths percent;
     (d) Urban transportation business: Six-tenths of one percent;
     (e) Vessels under sixty-five feet in length, except tugboats, operating upon the waters within the state: Six-tenths of one percent;
     (f) Motor transportation, railroad, railroad car, and tugboat businesses, and all public service businesses other than ones mentioned above: One and eight-tenths of one percent;
     (g) Water distribution business: Four and seven-tenths percent;
     (h) Log transportation business: One and twenty-eight one-hundredths percent;
     (i) Community residential service business: Four and seven-tenths percent;
     (j) Home care business: Four and seven-tenths percent;
     (k) Adult day health business: Four and seven-tenths percent.
     (2) An additional tax is imposed equal to the rate specified in RCW 82.02.030 multiplied by the tax payable under subsection (1) of this section.
     (3) Twenty percent of the moneys collected under subsection (1) of this section on water distribution businesses and sixty percent of the moneys collected under subsection (1) of this section on sewerage collection businesses ((shall)) must be deposited in the public works assistance account created in RCW 43.155.050.
     (4) Ninety-five percent of the moneys collected under subsection (1)(h) of this section must be deposited in the community residential investment account.
     (5) Ninety-five percent of the moneys collected under subsection (1)(i) and (j) of this section must be deposited in the home and community based services investment account.

Sec. 4   RCW 82.16.020 and 1996 c 150 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) There is levied and ((there shall be)) collected from every person a tax for the act or privilege of engaging within this state in any one or more of the businesses herein mentioned. The tax ((shall be)) is equal to the gross income of the business, multiplied by the rate set out after the business, as follows:
     (a) Express, sewerage collection, and telegraph businesses: Three and six-tenths percent;
     (b) Light and power business: Three and sixty-two one-hundredths percent;
     (c) Gas distribution business: Three and six-tenths percent;
     (d) Urban transportation business: Six-tenths of one percent;
     (e) Vessels under sixty-five feet in length, except tugboats, operating upon the waters within the state: Six-tenths of one percent;
     (f) Motor transportation, railroad, railroad car, and tugboat businesses, and all public service businesses other than ones mentioned above: One and eight-tenths of one percent;
     (g) Water distribution business: Four and seven-tenths percent;
     (h) Community residential service business: Four and seven-tenths percent;
     (i) Home care business: Four and seven-tenths percent;
     (j) Adult day health business: Four and seven-tenths percent.
     (2) An additional tax is imposed equal to the rate specified in RCW 82.02.030 multiplied by the tax payable under subsection (1) of this section.
     (3) Twenty percent of the moneys collected under subsection (1) of this section on water distribution businesses and sixty percent of the moneys collected under subsection (1) of this section on sewerage collection businesses ((shall)) must be deposited in the public works assistance account created in RCW 43.155.050.
     (4) Ninety-five percent of the moneys collected under subsection (1)(h) of this section must be deposited in the community residential investment account.
     (5) Ninety-five percent of the moneys collected under subsection (1)(i) and (j) of this section must be deposited in the home and community based services investment account.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 5   A new section is added to chapter 82.16 RCW to read as follows:
     (1) The community residential investment account is created in the state treasury. Moneys in the account may be spent only after appropriation. Expenditures from the account may be used for the following purposes:
     (a) To increase rates paid to community residential services businesses from the rates provided in section 205(1), chapter 564, Laws of 2009;
     (b) To enhance the rates paid to increase compensation to staff providing habilitative instruction and support services, and homogenize administrative and indirect client support rates; and
     (c) To increase the number of individuals receiving community residential services available through the division of developmental disabilities.
     (2) The home and community based services investment account is created in the state treasury. Moneys in the account may be spent only after appropriation. Expenditures from the account may be used for home and community based services provided by the aging and disabilities services administration at the department of social and health services. Expenditures from the account may be used for, but are not limited to, the following purposes: (a) To increase rates paid to home care and adult day health businesses to compensate for the amount of public utility tax paid; (b) for an allocation to the department of health to cover grants to home care agencies that provide services to private pay populations; and (c) to prevent reductions in services or expand access to home care and adult day health services.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 6   Sections 1 and 3 of this act take effect July 1, 2010.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 7   Sections 2 and 4 of this act take effect June 30, 2013.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 8   Sections 1 and 3 of this act expire June 30, 2013.