CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SENATE BILL 6312
Chapter 159, Laws of 2020
66TH LEGISLATURE
2020 REGULAR SESSION
NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION AND LIBRARY FUNDRAISING--RECEIPT OF PRIZE--USE TAX EXEMPTION
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 11, 2020
Passed by the Senate March 7, 2020
  Yeas 48  Nays 1
CYRUS HABIB
President of the Senate
Passed by the House March 10, 2020
  Yeas 96  Nays 1
LAURIE JINKINS
Speaker of the House of Representatives
CERTIFICATE
I, Brad Hendrickson, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 6312 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.
BRAD HENDRICKSON
Secretary
Secretary
Approved March 25, 2020 3:46 PM
FILED
March 26, 2020
JAY INSLEE
Governor of the State of Washington
Secretary of State
State of Washington
SENATE BILL 6312
Passed Legislature - 2020 Regular Session
State of Washington
66th Legislature
2020 Regular Session
BySenators Zeiger, O'Ban, and Rolfes
Read first time 01/15/20.Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.
AN ACT Relating to making the nonprofit and library fund-raising exemption permanent; amending RCW 82.12.225; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 82.12.225 and 2015 3rd sp.s. c 32 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) The provisions of this chapter do not apply in respect to the use of any article of personal property, valued at less than twelve thousand dollars, purchased or received as a prize in a contest of chance, as defined in RCW 82.04.285, from a nonprofit organization or a library, if the gross income the nonprofit organization or library receives from the sale is exempt under RCW 82.04.3651.
(2) ((This section expires July 1, 2020.))(a) Beginning December 2020, and each December thereafter, the department must adjust the value limit for the exemption under subsection (1) of this section by multiplying the current value limit for the exemption under subsection (1) of this section by the greater of one or one plus the percentage change in the consumer price index for the most recent twelve-month period available as of December 1st of the current calendar year, and rounding the result to the nearest ten dollars. If an adjustment under this subsection (2) would reduce the value limit for the exemption under subsection (1) of this section, the department may not adjust the value limit for use in the following year. The department must promptly publish the adjusted value limit for the next calendar year on its public web site. Each adjusted value limit calculated under this subsection takes effect on the following January 1st.
(b) For purposes of this subsection (2):
(i) "Consumer price index" means the consumer price index for all urban consumers, all items, (CPI-U) for the Seattle area as calculated by the United States bureau of labor statistics or successor agency. If the United States bureau of labor statistics or successor agency ceases to calculate a CPI-U for the Seattle area, "consumer price index" means a successor index as determined by the department consistent with the purpose of this subsection (2); and
(ii) "Seattle area" means the geographic area sample that includes Seattle and surrounding areas.
NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2. The provisions of RCW 82.32.805 and 82.32.808 do not apply to this act.
Passed by the Senate March 7, 2020.
Passed by the House March 10, 2020.
Approved by the Governor March 25, 2020.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 26, 2020.
--- END ---