H-1190.1
HOUSE BILL 1887
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
By Representatives Kloba, Parshley, Simmons, and Pollet
Read first time 02/07/25. Referred to Committee on Consumer Protection & Business.
AN ACT Relating to creating a data broker registry for the purpose of imposing a data broker severance tax; amending RCW 18.235.020 ; adding a new chapter to Title 19 RCW; adding a new chapter to Title 82 RCW; creating new sections; and providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. (1) The legislature intends to update and adapt state tax policy to reflect the economic activity that has emerged with the advent of new technologies. The legislature recognizes that consumers are increasingly conducting their professional and personal affairs online and on devices such as laptop computers, smartphones, or tablets. These activities include accessing the marketplace, the workplace, health care, information, and entertainment. Through these daily activities, consumers generate enormous and unprecedented amounts of data about themselves, including their locations, behaviors, and preferences.
(2) The legislature further recognizes that technological advances have made it possible to more easily and quickly collect vast amounts of personal information and connect it to an individual, whether such information is obtained through electronic or other means.