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House Bill 1258 — Statewide Tourism Marketing Account (Washington, 2023)

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House Bill 1258, State of Washington, 68th Legislature, 2023 Regular Session, with Representatives Ryu, Volz, and Steele listed first among the sponsors, read first time 01/12/23 and referred to the Committee on Innovation, Community & Economic Development, & Veterans. The act relates to increasing tourism to Washington state through enhancement of the statewide tourism marketing account and changing necessary match requirements, and amends RCW 43.384.040 and 82.08.225. Section 2 provides that beginning July 1, 2018, 0.2 percent of taxes collected on retail sales of lodging, car rentals, and restaurants must be deposited into the account, and that the deposit may only occur if the legislature authorizes it in the biennial omnibus appropriations act.

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     H-0442.1

                                HOUSE BILL 1258


     State of Washington       68th Legislature       2023 Regular Session

     By Representatives Ryu, Volz, Steele, Walen, Reeves, Waters,
     Chambers, Reed, Christian, Cortes, Callan, Schmidt, Barkis, and Fosse

     Read first time 01/12/23.      Referred to Committee   on   Innovation,
     Community & Economic Development, & Veterans.




1        AN ACT Relating to increasing tourism to Washington state through
2    enhancement of the statewide tourism marketing account and changing
3    necessary match requirements; and amending RCW 43.384.040 and
4    82.08.225.


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


 6       Sec. 1.   RCW 43.384.040 and 2018 c 275 s 5 are each amended to
 7   read as follows:
 8       The statewide tourism marketing account is created in the state
 9   treasury. All receipts from tax revenues under RCW 82.08.225 must be
10   deposited into the account. Moneys in the account may be spent only
11   after appropriation. Expenditures from the account may be used only
12   for expenditures of the department that are related to implementation
13   of a statewide tourism marketing program and operation of the
14   authority. A ((two-to-one)) one-to-one nonstate or state fund, other
15   than general fund state, match must be provided for all expenditures
16   from the account. A match may consist of nonstate or state fund,
17   other than general fund state, cash contributions deposited in the
18   private local account created under RCW 43.384.020(4), the value of
19   an advertising equivalency contribution, or an in-kind contribution.
20   The board must determine criteria for what qualifies as an in-kind
21   contribution.
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 1       Sec. 2.   RCW 82.08.225 and 2018 c 275 s 9 are each amended to
 2   read as follows:
 3       (((1))) Beginning July 1, 2018, 0.2 percent of taxes collected
 4   pursuant to RCW 82.08.020(1) on retail sales of lodging, car rentals,
 5   and restaurants must be deposited into the statewide tourism
 6   marketing account created in RCW 43.384.040. ((Except as provided
 7   otherwise for fiscal year 2019 in subsection (2) of this section,
 8   future)) Future revenue collections under this section may be up to
 9   ((three million dollars)) $26,000,000 per biennium and must be
10   deposited into the statewide tourism marketing account created in RCW
11   43.384.040. The deposit under this subsection to the statewide
12   tourism marketing account may only occur if the legislature
13   authorizes the deposit in the biennial omnibus appropriations act.
14       (((2) For fiscal year 2019, up to a maximum of one million five
15   hundred thousand dollars must be deposited in the statewide tourism
16   marketing account created in RCW 43.384.040. The deposit under this
17   subsection to the statewide tourism marketing account may only occur
18   if the legislature authorizes the deposit in the biennial omnibus
19   appropriations act.))

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