Agenda Update; House Finance

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Added to Executive Session:  SHB 1182.
Removed from Executive Session:  HB 1670 - Raising the limit factor for property taxes, HB 1453 - Providing a tax exemption for medical cannabis patients, HB 1422 - Clarifying that certain reusable packing materials are exempt from sales and use tax and HB 1573 - Extending tax preferences for dairy, fruit and vegetable, and seafood processors. All bills were reported out of committee 02/21/23.
Finance - 2/22/2023 8:00 AM

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

REVISED ON 2/21/2023 AT 1:59 PM

Public Hearing:
1.   HB 1729 - Creating and expanding tax incentives for the research, development, production, and sale of hydrogen fuel products in Washington state. (Remote Testimony Available).
2.   HB 1768 - Exempting certain sales of electricity to qualifying green businesses from the public utilities tax. (Remote Testimony Available).
3.   HB 1793 - Funding digital equity by imposing a tax on certain wireless devices. (Remote Testimony Available).

Executive Session:
1.   HB 1764 - Establishing a method of valuing asphalt and aggregate used in public road construction for purposes of taxation.
2.   HB 1761 - Increasing the personal property tax exemption.
3.   HJR 4206 - Concerning the taxation of personal property.
4.   SHB 1681 - Concerning problem gambling.
5.   HB 1756 - Supporting clean energy through tax changes that increase revenue to local governments, schools, and impacted communities.
6.   HB 1371 - Providing incentives to improve freight railroad infrastructure.
7.   HB 1510 - Establishing permanent funding for community preservation and development authorities approved through RCW 43.167.060.
8.   HB 1575 - Modifying the sales and use tax for cultural access programs by allowing the tax to be imposed by a councilmanic or commission authority and defining timelines and priorities for action.
9.   HB 1742 - Concerning nontax statutes administered by the department of revenue.
10.   HB 1812 - Continuing the business and occupation tax deduction for federal funds received from a medicaid transformation or demonstration project or medicaid quality improvement program or standard.
11.   SHB 1494 - Concerning collection of assessments for irrigation and rehabilitation districts.
12.   HB 1663 - Allowing functionally consolidated port districts to adopt a unified levy.
13.   SHB 1182 - Providing a tax exemption for the first 20,000 gallons of wine sold by a winery in Washington.


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