FINAL BILL REPORT

SHB 578

                                  C 358 L 87

BYHouse Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Holm, Haugen, Belcher and Amondson)

Establishing dates for establishment of taxing district boundaries for levy purposes.

House Committe on Local Government

Senate Committee on Governmental Operations

SYNOPSIS AS ENACTED

BACKGROUND:

Boundaries of a taxing district are established for purposes of imposing property taxes in any year on the first day of March.  Property taxes are imposed in December and then collected in the following year.

SUMMARY:

The date for establishing the boundaries of a taxing district for imposing property taxes is changed from the first day of March to the first day of June, if a boundary change that has been made is coterminous with the boundaries of another taxing district as it existed as of the first day of March of that year.

VOTES ON FINAL PASSAGE:

      House 97   0

      Senate    46     0(Senate amended)

      House 96   0(House concurred)

EFFECTIVE:July 26, 1987