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               ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2214

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1996 Regular Session

 

By House Committee on Finance (originally sponsored by Representatives Van Luven, B. Thomas, Schoesler, Pennington, Mastin, Sheldon, Radcliff, Koster, Smith, Huff, Sheahan, Morris, Thompson, Cooke, Goldsmith, Backlund, Benton and Dyer)

 

Read first time 01/16/96. 

 

Exempting medical research materials from sales and use taxes. 


    AN ACT Relating to sales and use tax exemptions for research and development; adding a new section to chapter 82.08 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 82.12 RCW; and providing an effective date.

 

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

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 82.08 RCW to read as follows:

    The tax levied by RCW 82.08.020 shall not apply to sales of human blood, tissue, organs, bodies, or body parts for medical research and quality control testing purposes.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 82.12 RCW to read as follows:

    The provisions of this chapter shall not apply in respect to the use of human blood, tissue, organs, bodies, or body parts for medical research and quality control testing purposes.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1996.

 


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