CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        HOUSE BILL 2081

 

 

 

 

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

 

Passed by the House March 9, 1999

  Yeas 87   Nays 4

 

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives

     

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

 

 

Passed by the Senate April 15, 1999

  Yeas 46   Nays 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

We, Dean R. Foster and Timothy A. Martin, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 2081  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

 

                          Chief Clerk

President of the Senate

 

 

 

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.         

                                FILED

                

 

Governor of the State of Washington

                   Secretary of State

                  State of Washington

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                          HOUSE BILL 2081

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             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

 

By Representatives Ruderman, Crouse, Dunshee, Thomas, Kessler, Murray, O'Brien, Ogden, Rockefeller, Stensen, Constantine and Lantz; by request of Governor Locke

 

Read first time 02/15/1999.  Referred to Committee on Technology, Telecommunications & Energy.

  Continuing a moratorium that prohibits a city or town from imposing a specific fee or tax on an internet service provider.  


    AN ACT Relating to extending the prohibition on taxes or fees specific to internet service providers; and amending RCW 35.21.717.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 35.21.717 and 1997 c 304 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

    Until July 1, ((1999)) 2002, a city or town may not impose any new taxes or fees specific to internet service providers.  A city or town may tax internet service providers under generally applicable business taxes or fees, at a rate not to exceed the rate applied to a general service classification.  For the purposes of this section, "internet service" has the same meaning as in RCW 82.04.297.

 

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