SSB 5984 -
By Representative Ormsby
SCOPE AND OBJECT 02/29/2012
On page 5, after line 24, insert the following:
"Sec. 7 RCW 82.14.390 and 2011 1st sp.s. c 50 s 973 are each
amended to read as follows:
(1) Except as provided in subsection (7) of this section, the
governing body of a public facilities district (a) created before July
31, 2002, under chapter 35.57 or 36.100 RCW that ((commences))
commenced construction of a new regional center, or improvement or
rehabilitation of an existing new regional center, before January 1,
2004; (b) created before July 1, 2006, under chapter 35.57 RCW in a
county or counties in which there are no other public facilities
districts on June 7, 2006, and in which the total population in the
public facilities district is greater than ninety thousand that
((commences)) commenced construction of a new regional center before
February 1, 2007; (c) created under the authority of RCW
35.57.010(1)(d); or (d) created before September 1, 2007, under chapter
35.57 or 36.100 RCW, in a county or counties in which there are no
other public facilities districts on July 22, 2007, and in which the
total population in the public facilities district is greater than
seventy thousand, that ((commences)) commenced construction of a new
regional center before January 1, 2009, or before January 1, 2011, in
the case of a new regional center in a county designated by the
president as a disaster area in December 2007, may impose a sales and
use tax in accordance with the terms of this chapter. The tax is in
addition to other taxes authorized by law and must 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 public
facilities district. The rate of tax may not exceed 0.033 percent of
the selling price in the case of a sales tax or value of the article
used in the case of a use tax.
(2)(a) The governing body of a public facilities district imposing
a sales and use tax under the authority of this section may increase
the rate of tax up to 0.037 percent if, within three fiscal years of
July 1, 2008, the department determines that, as a result of RCW
82.14.490 and the chapter 6, Laws of 2007 amendments to RCW 82.14.020,
a public facilities district's sales and use tax collections for fiscal
years after July 1, 2008, have been reduced by a net loss of at least
0.50 percent from the fiscal year before July 1, 2008. The fiscal year
in which this section becomes effective is the first fiscal year after
July 1, 2008.
(b) The department must determine sales and use tax collection net
losses under this section as provided in RCW 82.14.500 (2) and (3).
The department must provide written notice of its determinations to
public facilities districts. Determinations by the department of a
public facilities district's sales and use tax collection net losses as
a result of RCW 82.14.490 and the chapter 6, Laws of 2007 amendments to
RCW 82.14.020 are final and not appealable.
(c) A public facilities district may increase its rate of tax after
it has received written notice from the department as provided in (b)
of this subsection. The increase in the rate of tax must be made in
0.001 percent increments and must be the least amount necessary to
mitigate the net loss in sales and use tax collections as a result of
RCW 82.14.490 and the chapter 6, Laws of 2007 amendments to RCW
82.14.020. The increase in the rate of tax is subject to RCW
82.14.055.
(3) The tax imposed under subsection (1) of this section must be
deducted from the amount of tax otherwise required to be collected or
paid over to the department of revenue under chapter 82.08 or 82.12
RCW. The department of revenue must perform the collection of such
taxes on behalf of the county at no cost to the public facilities
district. During the 2011-2013 fiscal biennium, distributions by the
state to a public facilities district based on the additional rate
authorized in subsection (2) of this section must be reduced by 3.4
percent.
(4) No tax may be collected under this section before August 1,
2000. The tax imposed in this section expires when the bonds issued
for the construction, improvement, rehabilitation, or expansion of the
regional center and related parking facilities are retired, but not
more than ((twenty-five)) forty years after the tax is first collected.
(5) Moneys collected under this section may only be used for the
purposes set forth in RCW 35.57.020 and must be matched with an amount
from other public or private sources equal to thirty-three percent of
the amount collected under this section; however, amounts generated
from nonvoter approved taxes authorized under chapter 35.57 RCW or
nonvoter approved taxes authorized under chapter 36.100 RCW do not
constitute a public or private source. For the purpose of this
section, public or private sources includes, but is not limited to cash
or in-kind contributions used in all phases of the development or
improvement of the regional center, land that is donated and used for
the siting of the regional center, cash or in-kind contributions from
public or private foundations, or amounts attributed to private sector
partners as part of a public and private partnership agreement
negotiated by the public facilities district.
(6) The combined total tax levied under this section may not be
greater than 0.037 percent. If both a public facilities district
created under chapter 35.57 RCW and a public facilities district
created under chapter 36.100 RCW impose a tax under this section, the
tax imposed by a public facilities district created under chapter 35.57
RCW must be credited against the tax imposed by a public facilities
district created under chapter 36.100 RCW.
(7) A public facilities district created under chapter 36.100 RCW
is not eligible to impose the tax under this section if the legislative
authority of the county where the public facilities district is located
has imposed a sales and use tax under RCW 82.14.0485 or 82.14.0494."
Renumber the remaining sections consecutively, correct any internal references accordingly, and correct the title.
EFFECT: Adds the PFD sales and use tax credit statute to the bill to extend the duration of the tax credit from 25 to 40 years and to allow the revenue to be used for expansion, improvement, or rehabilitation of the facility.