5925 AMH MORR LONG 151

SB 5925 - H AMD to Revenue Comm. Amendment 353 ADOPTED 4-17-93

By Representative Morris and others

     On page 2 of the amendment, after line 17, insert:

     "Sec. 3.  RCW 36.100.010 and 1989 1st ex.s. c 8 ' 1 are each amended to read as follows:

     (1) A public facilities district may be created in any county with three hundred thousand or more population that is located more than one hundred miles from any county in which the state has constructed and owns a convention center, or any county with a population less than seventy-five thousand but greater than twenty thousand in which is located all or part of a national monument.  A public facilities district shall be coextensive with the boundaries of the county.

     (2) A public facilities district shall be created upon adoption of a resolution providing for the creation of such a district by the county legislative authority in which the proposed district is located and the city council of the largest city within such county.

     (3) A public facilities district is a municipal corporation, an independent taxing "authority" within the meaning of Article VII, section 1 of the state Constitution, and a "taxing district" within the meaning of Article VII, section 2 of the state Constitution.

     (4) No taxes authorized under this chapter may be assessed or levied unless a majority of the voters of the public facilities district has validated the creation of the public facilities district at a general or special election.

     (5) A public facilities district shall constitute a body corporate and shall possess all the usual powers of a corporation for public purposes as well as all other powers that may now or hereafter be specifically conferred by statute, including, but not limited to, the authority to hire employees, staff, and services, to enter into contracts, and to sue and be sued."

EFFECT:  Allows Lewis county to create a public facilities district.  Under existing law, a public facilities district may build sports and entertainment facilities and levy a hotel motel tax of 2%, an admissions tax on publicly owned facilities, a voter-approved excess property tax levy, and/or a 0.1% sales tax.  These taxes may be levied only if the creation of the district is validated by the voters at a special or general election.