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                          HOUSE BILL 3120

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

By Representatives Fortunato and Benson

Read first time 02/03/2000.  Referred to Committee on Transportation.

Directing transportation-related sales taxes to the motor vehicle fund.

    AN ACT Relating to the distribution of taxes; adding new sections to chapter 82.32 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 82.32 RCW to read as follows:

    It is the intent of the legislature to establish a long-term revenue source by providing the matching of taxes already being collected by the state to the users of the state's transportation systems.  The revenue will be collected from taxes being paid on transportation-related activities and then directed to transportation  improvement projects.  This will provide a revenue stream that can be used for transportation projects or to pay bond obligations that are issued for transportation improvements that will benefit the end users.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 82.32 RCW to read as follows:

    The department shall deposit into the motor vehicle fund all revenue received from taxes imposed under chapters 82.08 and 82.12 RCW upon the sale of, use of, repair of, lease of, or any charge made for:

    (1) Motor vehicles, vehicles, trailers, travel trailers as defined in RCW 46.04.623, campers as defined in RCW 46.04.085, and semitrailers used, or of the type designed primarily to be used, upon the public streets and highways, for the convenience or pleasure of the owner, or for the conveyance, for hire or otherwise, of persons or property, including fixed loads and facilities for human habitation; but not including (a) dock and warehouse tractors and their cars or trailers, lumber carriers of the type known as spiders, and all other automotive equipment not designed primarily for use upon public streets or highways, (b) motor vehicles or their trailers used entirely upon private property, or (c) mobile homes as defined in RCW 46.04.302;

    (2) Building, repairing, or improving of, or ingredients, including all materials, labor, equipment, contracts, and components used for, any publicly owned street, place, road, highway, easement, right of way, mass public transportation terminal or parking facility, bridge, signing, tunnel, or trestle as described in RCW 82.04.050; and

    (3) Construction, improvement, equipment, components, or repair of a ferry, ferry terminal, or other facility operated by the Washington State Ferries or for the repair, overhaul, or the dry-docking of any ferry operated by Washington State Ferries.

    Subsection (1) of this section will be implemented over the next five fiscal years beginning July 1, 2000, at twenty percent of the tax imposed under chapters 82.08 and 82.12 RCW, with an increase of twenty percent per year until one hundred percent is reached in the fifth fiscal year.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.  This act takes effect July 1, 2000.

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