Agenda Update; House Finance

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Removed from Public Hearing: HB 2967 Assisting Washington families by improving the fairness of the state's tax system by enacting a capital gains tax and providing property tax relief. 
Added to Possible Executive Session: SHB 2015 and SHB 2396.


Finance - 2/5/2018 8:00 a.m.

House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED ON 2/1/2018 AT 5:59 PM

Public Hearing:
  1. HB 2946 - Providing tax relief to small businesses located in rural counties.
  2. HB 2906 - Concerning eligibility of a surviving spouse for the property tax exemption for senior citizens and disabled persons.
  3. HB 2967 - Assisting Washington families by improving the fairness of the state's tax system by enacting a capital gains tax and providing property tax relief.
  4. SHB 2635 - Creating a military benefit zone program.

Possible Executive Session:
  1. HB 2946 - Providing tax relief to small businesses located in rural counties.
  2. SHB 2269 - Concerning tax relief for adaptive automotive equipment for veterans and service members with disabilities.
  3. HB 2940 - Making the business and occupation tax more progressive.
  4. HB 2906 - Concerning eligibility of a surviving spouse for the property tax exemption for senior citizens and disabled persons.
  5. HB 2730 - Encouraging employers to promote and support workers' educational attainment.
  6. HB 2875 - Concerning sales, use, and excise tax exemptions for self-help housing development.
  7. HB 2853 - Providing a retail sales and use tax exemption for qualified donations to the Washington excellence fund.
  8. HB 2799 - Providing that certain local sales and use taxes may be used for prevention and outreach programs.
  9. HB 2929 - Providing that the department of revenue is the secretary of state's agent for specified legal entity renewals.
  10. HB 2933 - Authorizing counties and cities planning under the growth management act to impose certain real estate excise taxes by councilmanic action.
  11. HB 2305 - Extending the business and occupation tax return filing due date for self-employed filers.
  12. HB 2747 - Allowing a deduction for out-of-pocket medical expenses from the calculation of disposable income for senior property tax programs.
  13. SHB 2635 - Creating a military benefit zone program.
  14. HB 2597 - Extending the existing state property tax exemption for residences of senior citizens and disabled persons to local regular property taxes.
  15. HB 2350 - Relieving burdens on small businesses by updating the tax return filing thresholds to reflect inflation.
  16. HB 2437 - Encouraging investments in affordable and supportive housing.
  17. SHB 2015 - Modifying the lodging excise tax to remove the exemption for premises with fewer than sixty lodging units and to tax certain vacation rentals, short-term home-sharing arrangements, and other compensated use or occupancy of dwellings.
  18. SHB 2396 - Establishing the working families' child care access and affordability through regional employers act.

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