CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SENATE BILL 5634
Chapter 159, Laws of 2022
67TH LEGISLATURE
2022 REGULAR SESSION
UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION—REGULATORY FEES
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 9, 2022
Passed by the Senate January 26, 2022 Yeas 29 Nays 19 DENNY HECK
President of the Senate Passed by the House March 7, 2022 Yeas 53 Nays 45 LAURIE JINKINS
Speaker of the House of Representatives | CERTIFICATE I, Sarah Bannister, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5634 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. SARAH BANNISTER
Secretary Secretary |
Approved March 24, 2022 9:18 AM | FILED March 24, 2022 |
JAY INSLEE
Governor of the State of Washington | Secretary of State State of Washington |
SENATE BILL 5634
Passed Legislature - 2022 Regular Session
State of Washington | 67th Legislature | 2022 Regular Session |
BySenator Carlyle
Prefiled 01/04/22.
AN ACT Relating to updating the utilities and transportation commission's regulatory fees; and amending RCW
80.24.010.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW
80.24.010 and 2003 c 296 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
Every public service company subject to regulation by the commission shall, on or before the date specified by the commission for filing annual reports under RCW
80.04.080, file with the commission a statement on oath showing its gross operating revenue from intrastate operations for the preceding calendar year or portion thereof and pay to the commission a fee equal to one-tenth of one percent of the first fifty thousand dollars of gross operating revenue, plus ((
two-tenths))
four-tenths of one percent of any gross operating revenue in excess of fifty thousand dollars: PROVIDED, That the commission may, by rule, set minimum fees that do not exceed the cost of collecting the fees. The commission may by rule waive any or all of the minimum fee established pursuant to this section.
The percentage rates of gross operating revenue to be paid in any year may be decreased by the commission for any class of companies subject to the payment of such fees, by general order entered before March 1st of such year, and for such purpose such companies shall be classified as follows:
Electrical, gas, water, telecommunications, and irrigation companies shall constitute class one. Every other company subject to regulation by the commission, for which regulatory fees are not otherwise fixed by law shall pay fees as herein provided and shall constitute additional classes according to kinds of businesses engaged in.
Any payment of the fee imposed by this section made after its due date shall include a late fee of two percent of the amount due. Delinquent fees shall accrue interest at the rate of one percent per month.
Passed by the Senate January 26, 2022.
Passed by the House March 7, 2022.
Approved by the Governor March 24, 2022.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 24, 2022.
--- END ---