BILL REQ. #:  S-0201.3 

Read first time 01/08/2007.   Referred to Committee on Transportation.

     AN ACT Relating to the fuel tax rate used to determine fuel tax distributions to fund nonhighway expenditures; and amending RCW 46.10.170.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 46.10.170 and 2003 c 361 s 408 are each amended to read as follows:
     From time to time, but at least once each four years, the department shall determine the amount of moneys paid to it as motor vehicle fuel tax that is tax on snowmobile fuel. ((Such)) This determination ((shall)) must use one hundred thirty-five gallons as the average yearly fuel usage per snowmobile, the number of registered snowmobiles during the calendar year under determination, and a fuel tax rate ((of: (1) Nineteen cents per gallon of motor vehicle fuel from July 1, 2003, through June 30, 2005; (2) twenty cents per gallon of motor vehicle fuel from July 1, 2005, through June 30, 2007; (3) twenty-one cents per gallon of motor vehicle fuel from July 1, 2007, through June 30, 2009; (4) twenty-two cents per gallon of motor vehicle fuel from July 1, 2009, through June 30, 2011; and (5) twenty-three cents per gallon of motor vehicle fuel beginning July 1, 2011, and thereafter)) equal to the motor vehicle fuel tax rate, in current use during the calendar year under determination, as provided in RCW 82.36.025.