CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

              ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2214

                   Chapter 141, Laws of 1996

                        54th Legislature

                      1996 Regular Session

    MATERIALS USED FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND QUALITY CONTROL

             TESTING--SALES AND USE TAX EXEMPTIONS

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/1/96

Passed by the House February 10, 1996   Yeas 97   Nays 0              CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 7, 1996   Yeas 48   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2214 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

JOEL PRITCHARD President of the Senate

TIMOTHY A. MARTIN                           Chief Clerk

Approved March 25, 1996 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                      March 25, 1996 - 4:13 p.m.

MIKE LOWRY Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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               ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2214

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             Passed Legislature - 1996 Regular Session

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.

    Passed the House February 10, 1996.

    Passed the Senate March 7, 1996.

Approved by the Governor March 25, 1996.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 25, 1996.