Taxation Law Section Bill Referrals - 2005 - Final Status

Washington State Bar Association

Section contact:  Nicole Chicoine

Bill Number

Title

Position

Status

Bills the Section took position or sponsored:

HB 1193

Providing an excise tax exemption for new businesses.

Neutral

Failed to pass

SHB 1299

Repealing outdated and unused tax preferences.

Neutral

Chapter 443, Laws of 2005.  Effective date 7/1/06.

HB 1332

Increasing the monthly business excise tax credit.

Neutral

Failed to pass

SB 5416

Modifying the review of tax preferences.

Neutral

Failed to pass

SB 5779
(SHB 1890)

Modifying the business and occupation taxation of slaughtering, breaking, and/or processing perishable meat products.

Oppose

Failed to pass

Bills of interest to Section:

HB 1411

Eliminating Washington estate tax on estates below the federal estate tax liability filing threshold.

 

Failed to pass

HB 1501
(SB 5032)

Requiring a six-year review of property tax exemptions.

 

Failed to pass

SHB 1502

Modifying tax abatement provisions.

 

Chapter 56, Laws of 2005.  Effective date 7/24/05.

HB 1742

Providing tax incentives for certain multiple-unit dwellings in urban centers.

 

Failed to pass

HB 1743

Modifying senior citizen property tax provisions.

 

Failed to pass

HB 1744

Providing property tax relief.

 

Failed to pass

HB 1760
(E2SSB 5111)

Providing tax incentives for solar energy systems.

 

Failed to pass

HB 1762

Sharing state sales and use tax revenue with local governments.

 

Failed to pass

SHB 1801

Providing a real estate excise tax exemption for certain farm and agricultural land.

 

Failed to pass

SHB 1846

Clarifying property tax provisions.  Revised for 1st Substitute: Making clarifying changes to property tax statutes.

 

Failed to pass

HB 1855
(SB 5819)

Modifying property tax exemptions related to churches and other religious organizations.

 

Failed to pass

HB 1869

Providing a business and occupation tax deduction for new businesses.

 

Failed to pass

HB 1870

Providing tax incentives to attract and retain the biotechnology industry.

 

Failed to pass

HB 1874

Providing a sales and use tax exemption for the modification or construction of facilities financed with voter-approved bonds.

 

Failed to pass

HB 1882
(SB 5626)

Modifying the business and occupation tax of wholesale sales of motor vehicle and special fuels.

 

Failed to pass

HB 1915
(SB 5814)

Authorizing the governor to enter into cigarette tax contracts with additional tribes.

 

Chapter 208, Laws of 2005.  Effective date 7/24/05.

HB 1916
(SB 5794)

Authorizing the governor to enter into a cigarette tax agreement with the Puyallup Tribe of Indians.

 

Failed to pass

HB 1957

Providing a business and occupation tax credit for employer-sponsored health coverage and contributions.

 

Failed to pass

HB 1963

Modifying the application requirements for the rural county business and occupation tax credit.

 

Failed to pass

HB 1971

Providing a sales and use tax exemption for certain parts and services for machinery and equipment used by a farmer.

 

Failed to pass

HB 1980
(SB 5904)

Modifying the administration of taxes.

 

Failed to pass

HB 1983

Modifying the taxation of land valued under the open space program.

 

Failed to pass

HB 2031

Authorizing a program to develop proposed legislation that provides business and occupation tax credits to physicians serving uninsured, medicare, and medicaid patients.

 

Failed to pass

SHB 2033

Modifying municipal business and occupation taxation.  Revised for 1st Substitute: Modifying the allocation of printing and publishing income for municipal business and occupation taxes.

 

Failed to pass

HB 2034
(SB 5412)

Modifying the impact of statewide initiatives on local tax authority.

 

Failed to pass

HB 2047

Providing a sales and use tax exemption for certain medical equipment.

 

Failed to pass

HB 2063

Modifying local government use of real estate excise tax revenue.

 

Failed to pass

HB 2075

Modifying cigarette taxation.

 

Failed to pass

HB 2106
(SSB 5999)

Exempting service contracts to administer parking and business improvement areas from excise taxation.

 

Failed to pass

HB 2111
(SSB 5972)

Modifying the business and occupation tax credit for property tax payments related to the manufacture of commercial airplanes.

 

Failed to pass

HB 2114
(SB 6021)

Limiting the tax exemption for sales to nonresidents.

 

Failed to pass

HB 2127

Providing property tax exemptions for persons with disabilities related to the performance of military duties.

 

Failed to pass

HB 2129

Providing a use tax exemption for certain tangible goods purchased outside the state.

 

Failed to pass

HB 2130

Modifying the taxation of omitted property.

 

Failed to pass

HB 2134
(SB 5990)

Providing a sales and use tax deferral for the construction of a historic automobile museum.

 

Failed to pass

HB 2136

Authorizing a business and occupation tax credit study.

 

Failed to pass

HB 2143
(SB 5925)

Authorizing a study to propose tax incentives that would promote investment in small business incubators.

 

Failed to pass

HB 2170

Concerning proceeds from the real estate excise tax.

 

Chapter 486,  Laws of 2005.  Effective date 7/24/05.

HB 2195

Relating to an expansion of local option real estate excise taxes in lieu of impact fees to fund capital projects.

 

Failed to pass

SHB 2196

Providing for expansion of the local option real estate excise tax to fund capital projects.  Revised for 1st Substitute: Authorizing an expansion of local real estate excise taxes in lieu of impact fees.

 

Failed to pass

ESHB 2221

Modifying the excise taxation of fruit and vegetable processing and storage.

 

Chapter 513, Laws of 2005.  Effective date 7/1/07 except sections 1 through 3, which become effective 7/1/05.

HB 2235
(SB 5908)

Conforming Washington's tax structure to the streamlined sales and use tax agreement.

 

Failed to pass

EHB 2270

Exempting payment for certain services provided by public development authorities from business and occupation taxation.

 

Failed to pass

HB 2273

Conforming Washington's tax structure to the streamlined sales and use tax agreement.

 

Failed to pass

HJM 4005
(SJM 8004)

Requesting Congress to permanently repeal the death tax.

 

Failed to pass

SB 5008

Updating state law to conform to changes in the federal estate tax.

 

Failed to pass

SB 5472
(HB 1221)

Expanding health benefit plan options available to employers.

 

Failed to pass

SSB 5497

Allowing terminally ill members to remove themselves from their retirement plan.

 

Chapter 131, Laws of 2005.  Effective date 4/21/05.

SB 5622

Conforming Washington's tax structure to the streamlined sales and use tax agreement.

 

Failed to pass

SB 5639

Modifying the high technology business and occupation tax credit.

 

Failed to pass

SSB 5640

Exempting royalty income on patents and copyrights from business and occupation tax for five years.

 

Failed to pass

SB 5769
(HB 1465)

Modifying requirements for voter-approved regular property tax levies.

 

Failed to pass

SB 5778