6513-S AMH SCHK H5380.1 [atlas:amendment]

6513-S AMH SCHK H5380.1

SSB 6513 - H AMD 476 ADOPTED 3-1-96

By Representatives K. Schmidt and others

Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:

"NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds and declares that permanently locating the U.S.S. Missouri in the city of Bremerton will be of significant economic, historical, and educational benefit to the state of Washington. The Washington state ferries will play a significant role in providing access to the U.S.S. Missouri for visitors coming from the east side of Puget Sound. The increase in ridership associated with the attraction will require an investment in new pedestrian facilities that connect the attraction to the Bremerton ferry terminal. In addition, the placement of the U.S.S. Missouri requires complex anchorage and dolphins to protect ferry system navigation lanes. This act supports, in part, the required infrastructure investments and provides financial resources for the Washington state ferries to accomplish the objectives. Additionally, funding is provided for ongoing operation and maintenance costs associated with passenger-only ferry service to the city of Bremerton necessary to support ridership increases associated with visitors to the U.S.S. Missouri.

Sec. 2. RCW 82.38.030 and 1989 c 193 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) There is hereby levied and imposed upon special fuel users a tax at the rate computed in the manner provided in RCW 82.36.025 per gallon or each one hundred cubic feet of compressed natural gas measured at standard pressure and temperature on the use of special fuel in any motor vehicle, or a ferry owned or operated by the state of Washington, operated upon the highways or waterways of this state during the fiscal year for which such rate is applicable.

(2) The tax shall be collected by the special fuel dealer and shall be paid over to the department as hereinafter provided: (a) With respect to all special fuel delivered by a special fuel dealer into supply tanks of motor vehicles or into storage facilities used for the fueling of motor vehicles at unbonded service stations in this state; or (b) in all other transactions where the purchaser is not the holder of a valid special fuel license issued pursuant to this chapter allowing the purchase of untaxed special fuel, except sales of special fuel for export. To claim an exemption on account of sales by a licensed special fuel dealer for export, the purchaser shall obtain from the selling special fuel dealer, and such selling special fuel dealer must furnish the purchaser, an invoice giving such details of the sale for export as the director may require, copies of which shall be furnished the department and the entity of the state or foreign jurisdiction of destination which is charged by the laws of that state or foreign jurisdiction with the control or monitoring or both, of the sales or movement of special fuel in that state or foreign jurisdiction.

(3) The tax shall be paid over to the department by the special fuel user as hereinafter provided with respect to the taxable use of special fuel upon which the tax has not previously been imposed.

It is expressly provided that delivery of special fuel may be made without collecting the tax otherwise imposed, when such deliveries are made by a bonded special fuel dealer to special fuel users who are authorized by the department as hereinafter provided, to purchase fuel without payment of tax to the bonded special fuel dealer.

Sec. 3. RCW 82.36.410 and 1973 c 95 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:

All moneys collected by the director shall be transmitted forthwith to the state treasurer, together with a statement showing whence the moneys were derived, and shall be by him credited to the motor vehicle fund. All revenues from fuel purchased for marine use by the state ferry system shall be credited to the Puget Sound ferry operations account created under RCW 47.60.530.

Sec. 4. RCW 47.60.530 and 1979 c 27 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:

There is hereby created in the motor vehicle fund the Puget Sound ferry operations account to the credit of which shall be deposited all moneys directed by law to be deposited therein. All moneys deposited in this account shall be expended pursuant to appropriations only for reimbursement of the motor vehicle fund for any state moneys, other than insurance proceeds, expended therefrom for alternate transportation services instituted as a result of the destruction of the Hood Canal bridge, and for maintenance and operation of the Washington state ferries including the Hood Canal bridge, supplementing as required the revenues available from the Washington state ferry system. Revenue attributable to the ferry fuel exemption from taxes under chapters 82.08 and 82.12 RCW, except as provided in section 5 of this act, shall be used to support passenger only ferry service to the city of Bremerton in order to address increased tourism and economic development activities.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 5. The sum of three million dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the biennium ending June 30, 1997, from the Puget Sound ferry operations account to the Washington state ferries of the department of transportation for the purpose of reimbursing Kitsap county and the Port of Bremerton for construction of facilities supporting the placement of and access to the national tourist attraction U.S.S. Missouri."

EFFECT: $3 million is provided to the Washington State Ferries (WSF) to reimburse Kitsap County and the Port of Bremerton for the construction of facilities supporting the permanent placement of and access to the U.S.S. Missouri in the city of Bremerton. Provides a sales and use tax exemption for marine fuel (as provided for other transit systems) to fund the $3 million appropriation and ongoing costs associated with passenger-only ferry service to the city of Bremerton necessary to support ridership increases associated with visitors to the U.S.S. Missouri.

SSB 6513 - H AMD

By Representative K. Schmidt

In line 2 of the title, after "Missouri;" strike the remainder of the title and insert "amending RCW 82.38.030, 82.36.410, and 47.60.530; creating a new section; and making an appropriation."