Concerning public facilities districts.

 S-0070.1

SENATE BILL 5138

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2025 Regular Session

By Senators Saldaña, Dhingra, Hasegawa, and Nobles

Prefiled 01/06/25. Read first time 01/13/25. Referred to Committee on Local Government.

AN ACT Relating to public facilities districts; and amending RCW 36.100.040 .

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1. RCW 36.100.040 and 2018 c 245 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) A public facilities district may impose an excise tax on the sale of or charge made for the furnishing of lodging that is subject to tax under chapter 82.08 RCW, except that no such tax may be levied on any premises having fewer than (( forty )) 40 lodging units. Except for any tax imposed under subsection (4) or (5) of this section, if a public facilities district has not imposed such an excise tax prior to December 31, 1995, the public facilities district may only impose the excise tax if a ballot proposition authorizing the imposition of the tax has been approved by a simple majority vote of voters of the public facilities district voting on the proposition.