CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SECOND
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1477
Chapter 176, Laws of 2002
57th Legislature
2002 Regular Session
EMERGENCY
COMMUNICATIONS--TAX
EFFECTIVE DATE: 6/13/02
|
Passed by the House February 19,
2002
Yeas 95 Nays 2
 FRANK
CHOPP
Speaker of the House
of Representatives
Passed by the Senate March 7,
2002
Yeas 43 Nays 3
|
CERTIFICATE
I, Cynthia Zehnder, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the
State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SECOND
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1477 as passed by the House of Representatives and
the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.
 CYNTHIA ZEHNDER
Chief Clerk
|
|
BRAD OWEN
President of the Senate
|
|
|
Approved March 27, 2002 Place Style On
Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
|
FILED
March 27, 2002 - 8:56 a.m.
|
|
|
|
|
 GARY LOCKE
Governor of the State of Washington
|
Secretary of State
State of Washington
|
_______________________________________________
SECOND
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1477
_______________________________________________
Passed
Legislature - 2002 Regular Session
State
of Washington 57th Legislature 2002 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 02/05/2002. Referred to Committee on .
Allowing counties to impose taxes for emergency
communication systems.
AN
ACT Relating to the imposition of taxes by counties for emergency communication
systems and facilities; and adding a new section to chapter 82.14 RCW.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 1. A
new section is added to chapter 82.14 RCW to read as follows:
(1)
A county legislative authority may submit an authorizing proposition to the
county voters, and if the proposition is approved by a majority of persons
voting, fix and impose a sales and use tax in accordance with the terms of this
chapter for the purposes designated in subsection (3) of this section.
(2)
The tax authorized in this section shall be in addition to any other taxes
authorized by law and shall be collected from those persons who are taxable by
the state under chapters 82.08 and 82.12 RCW upon the occurrence of any taxable
event within the county. The rate of tax shall equal one-tenth of one percent
of the selling price in the case of sales tax, or value of the article used, in
the case of a use tax.
(3)
Moneys received from any tax imposed under this section shall be used solely
for the purpose of providing funds for costs associated with financing, design,
acquisition, construction, equipping, operating, maintaining, remodeling,
repairing, reequipping, and improvement of emergency communication systems and
facilities.
(4)
Counties are authorized to develop joint ventures to collocate emergency
communication systems and facilities.
(5)
Prior to submitting the tax authorization in subsection (2) of this section to
the voters in a county that provides emergency communication services to a
governmental agency pursuant to a contract, the parties to the contract shall
review and negotiate or affirm the terms of the contract.
(6)
Prior to submitting the tax authorized in subsection (2) of this section to the
voters, a county with a population of more than five hundred thousand in which
any city over fifty thousand operates emergency communication systems and
facilities shall enter into an interlocal agreement with the city to determine
distribution of the revenue provided in this section.
Passed the House February 19, 2002.
Passed the Senate March 7, 2002.
Approved by the Governor
March 27, 2002.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State March 27, 2002.