CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 2199
68TH LEGISLATURE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
Passed by the House February 9, 2024
  Yeas 97  Nays 0

Speaker of the House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate March 1, 2024
  Yeas 48  Nays 1

President of the Senate
CERTIFICATE
I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 2199 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

Chief Clerk
Chief Clerk
Approved
FILED
Secretary of State
State of Washington

ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 2199

Passed Legislature - 2024 Regular Session
State of Washington
68th Legislature
2024 Regular Session
ByRepresentatives Orcutt, Fitzgibbon, Reed, Doglio, and Leavitt
Read first time 01/09/24.Referred to Committee on Finance.
AN ACT Relating to creating business and occupation and public utility tax exemptions for certain amounts received as the result of receipt, generation, purchase, sale, transfer, or retirement of allowances, offset credits, or price ceiling units under the climate commitment act; adding a new section to chapter 82.04 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 82.16 RCW; creating a new section; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 82.04 RCW to read as follows:
(1) This chapter does not apply to amounts received by a covered entity, opt-in entity, or entity that receives no-cost allowances, as defined in chapter 70A.65 RCW, from the receipt, generation, purchase, sale, transfer, or retirement of allowances, offset credits, or price ceiling units under chapter 70A.65 RCW.
(2) The provisions of RCW 82.32.805 and 82.32.808 do not apply to subsection (1) of this section.
NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 82.16 RCW to read as follows:
(1) This chapter does not apply to amounts received by a covered entity, opt-in entity, or entity that receives no-cost allowances, as defined in chapter 70A.65 RCW, from the receipt, generation, purchase, sale, transfer, or retirement of allowances, offset credits, or price ceiling units under chapter 70A.65 RCW.
(2) The provisions of RCW 82.32.805 and 82.32.808 do not apply to subsection (1) of this section.
NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3. This act applies both retrospectively and prospectively.
NEW SECTION.  Sec. 4. This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect April 1, 2024.
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