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• Introduced by Rep. Lynn Kessler, (D-Hoquiam) (D) on January 28, 2009, limits the time period during which sales and use tax for public facilities in rural counties may be collected to no more than twenty-five years from the date such taxes were first imposed. See also SB 5605.
  • Referred to the House Finance Committee on January 28, 2009.
    • Substitute offered in the House on March 2, 2009, to provide a restriction that requires a county to be imposing the rural county sales and use tax at the 0.09 rate before August 1, 2009, in order to take advantage of the time extension. The section making the bill retroactive to August 1, 2007, is eliminated. The substitute passed in the House by voice vote on March 2, 2009.
  • Referred to the House Rules Committee on March 2, 2009.
• Passed in the House (94 to 2) on March 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Received in the Senate on March 12, 2009.
  • Referred to the Senate Agriculture and Rural Economic Development Committee on March 12, 2009.
    • Amendment offered in the Senate on March 18, 2009, makes a technical correction referencing dates with in the original bill for the tax to expire. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on March 18, 2009.
  • Referred to the Senate Ways & Means Committee on March 18, 2009.
  • Referred to the Senate Rules Committee on April 20, 2009.
• Passed in the Senate (44 to 4) on April 23, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Received in the House on April 25, 2009, House agrees to Senate amendments. Passed in the House (95 to 0) on April 25, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Signed by Gov. Christine Gregoire on May 15, 2009, allows a rural county to impose the rural county sales and use tax for 25 years from the date the county changes the tax rate from 0.08 percent to 0.09 percent as long as the 0.09 rate is first imposed before August 1, 2009.