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ENGROSSED
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2417
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AS
AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed
Legislature - 1998 Regular Session
State of Washington 55th
Legislature 1998 Regular Session
By
Read first time 02/09/98.
Referred to Committee on .
Authorizing
local vehicle license fees adopted to fund transportation projects.
AN
ACT Relating to local vehicle license fees adopted to fund specific projects;
and amending RCW 82.80.020 and 82.80.080.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE
OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
82.80.020 and 1996 c 139 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)
The legislative authority of a county, or subject to subsection (7) of this
section, a qualifying city or town located in a county that has not imposed a
fifteen-dollar fee under this section, may fix and impose an additional
fee, not to exceed fifteen dollars per vehicle, for each vehicle that is
subject to license fees under RCW 46.16.060 and for each vehicle that is
subject to RCW 46.16.070 with an unladen weight of six thousand pounds or less,
and that is determined by the department of licensing to be registered
within the boundaries of the county.
(2)
The department of licensing shall administer and collect the fee. The
department shall deduct a percentage amount, as provided by contract, not to
exceed two percent of the taxes collected, for administration and collection
expenses incurred by it. The remaining proceeds shall be remitted to the
custody of the state treasurer for monthly distribution under RCW 82.80.080.
(3)
The proceeds of this fee shall be used strictly for transportation purposes in
accordance with RCW 82.80.070.
(4)
A county or qualifying city or town imposing this fee or initiating an
exemption process shall delay the effective date at least six months from the
date the ordinance is enacted to allow the department of licensing to implement
administration and collection of or exemption from the fee.
(5)
The legislative authority of a county or qualifying city or town may
develop and initiate an exemption process of the fifteen dollar fee for the
registered owners of vehicles residing within the boundaries of the county or
qualifying city or town: (a) Who are sixty-one years old or older
at the time payment of the fee is due and whose household income for the
previous calendar year is less than an amount prescribed by the county or
qualifying city or town legislative authority((,)); or (b)
who ((has)) have a physical disability.
(6)
The legislative authority of a county or qualifying city or town shall
develop and initiate an exemption process of the fifteen-dollar fee for
vehicles registered within the boundaries of the county that are licensed under
RCW 46.16.374.
(7)
For purposes of this section, a "qualifying city or town" means a
city or town residing within a county having a population of greater than
seventy-five thousand in which is located all or part of a national monument.
A qualifying city or town may impose the fee authorized in subsection (1) of
this section subject to the following conditions and limitations:
(a)
The city or town may impose the fee only if authorized to do so by a majority
of voters voting at a general or special election on a proposition for that
purpose. At a minimum, the ballot measure shall contain: (i) A description of
the transportation project proposed for funding, properly identified by
mileposts or other designations that specify the project parameters; (ii) the
proposed number of months or years necessary to fund the city or town's share
of the project cost; and (iii) the amount of fee to be imposed for the
project.
(b)
The city or town may not impose a fee that, if combined with the county fee,
exceeds fifteen dollars. If a county imposes or increases a fee under this
section that, if combined with the fee imposed by a city or town, exceeds
fifteen dollars, the city or town fee shall be reduced or eliminated as needed
so that in no city or town does the combined fee exceed fifteen dollars. All revenues
from county-imposed fees shall be distributed as called for in RCW 82.80.020.
(c)
Any fee imposed by a city or town under this section shall expire at the end of
the term of months or years provided in the ballot measure, or when the city or
town's bonded indebtedness on the project is retired, whichever is sooner.
(8)
The fee imposed under subsection (7) of this section shall apply only to
renewals and shall not apply to ownership transfer transactions.
Sec.
2. RCW
82.80.080 and 1990 c 42 s 213 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)
The state treasurer shall distribute revenues, less authorized deductions,
generated by the local option taxes authorized in RCW 82.80.010 and 82.80.020,
levied by counties to the levying counties, and cities contained in those
counties, based on the relative per capita population. County population for
purposes of this section is equal to one and one-half of the unincorporated
population of the county. In calculating the distributions, the state
treasurer shall use the population estimates prepared by the state office of
financial management and shall further calculate the distribution based on
information supplied by the departments of licensing and revenue, as
appropriate.
(2) The state treasurer shall distribute revenues, less
authorized deductions, generated by the local option taxes authorized in RCW
82.80.010 and 82.80.020 levied by qualifying cities and towns to the levying
cities and towns.
