5980-S AMS SPAN WILS 000816

5980‑S AMS SPAN WILS 01

SSB 5980 - S Amd to S Amd - 000816

BySenators Spanel and Haugen

On page 16, after line 2, insert the following:

"Sec. 31. RCW 82.04.330 and 1988 c 253 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

This chapter shall not apply to any person in respect to the business of growing or producing for sale upon the person's own lands or upon land in which the person has a present right of possession, any agricultural or horticultural produce or crop, or of raising upon the person's own lands or upon land in which the person has a present right of possession, any plantation Christmas tree or any animal, bird, fish, or insect, or the milk, eggs, wool, fur, meat, honey, or other substance obtained therefrom, or in respect to the sale of such products at wholesale by such grower, producer, or raiser thereof. This exemption shall not apply to any person selling such products at retail or using such products as ingredients in a manufacturing process; nor to the sale of any animal or substance obtained therefrom by a person in connection with the person's business of operating a stockyard or a slaughter or packing house; nor to any person in respect to the business of taking, cultivating, or raising timber; nor to any association of persons whatever, whether mutual, cooperative or otherwise, engaging in any business activity with respect to which tax liability is imposed under the provisions of this chapter.

As used in this section, "fish" means fish which are cultivated or raised entirely within confined rearing areas on the person's own land or on land in which the person has a present right of possession except fish raised in saltwater net pens.

This chapter shall also not apply to any persons who participate in the federal conservation reserve program or its successor administered by the United States department of agriculture with respect to land enrolled in that program."

SSB 5980 - S Amd

BySenator Spanel