BILL REQ. #:  H-3598.1 

Read first time 01/17/12.   Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.

     AN ACT Relating to the assessment of property with substantial land use limitations; adding a new section to chapter 84.40 RCW; and creating a new section.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 84.40 RCW to read as follows:
     Any taxing district that through ordinance, resolution, statute, rule, or by any other means implements any policy requiring a portion of assessed property to be set aside for the purposes of environmental protection, critical area protection, wetland protection, salmon protection, stream or creek buffers, storm water retention, forest preservation, aquifer protection, or any other restriction on the assessed property, must determine the percentage portion of the property set aside through the ordinance, resolution, statute, or rule. The taxing district must then reduce the assessed value of the property equal to the percentage of the portion determined to have been set aside through the ordinance, resolution, statute, or rule.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   This act applies to taxes levied for collection in 2014 and thereafter.