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Senate Bill Report — SB 5294, Transferring Dedicated Accounts for Professional Licenses (2025)

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Senate Bill Report on SB 5294, as of January 22, 2025, titled an act relating to transferring dedicated accounts for certain professional licenses to the business and professions account. The sponsors are Senators Gildon, Stanford, Dozier and Nobles, by request of Department of Licensing. The report says the Business and Professions Account was created in 2005 and receives license and registration receipts collected by the Department of Licensing. The bill expands the professions required to use the account to include architects, embalmers and funeral directors, landscape architects, certified real estate appraisers, geologists, appraisal management companies and the funeral and cemetery board, and repeals the matching accounts. The appropriation is none; the bill takes effect on January 1, 2026.

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Issuer
Congressional materials
Document type
Report
Date
2025-01-23
Case
2025 01 23 A32437 D275410 Bill Report 5294 Sba Bft 25

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“Senate Bill Report — SB 5294, Transferring Dedicated Accounts for Professional Licenses (2025).” Original at app.leg.wa.gov, dated 2025-01-23. Archived at Pandemic Darlings, https://pandemicdarlings.com/source-documents/2025-01-23-2025-01-23-a32437-d275410-bill-report-5294-sba-bft-25/, SHA-256 3419219588ed927362543bc63b5a0be02470279c4d31ec48e0077e95b3448467.

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                            SENATE BILL REPORT
                                  SB 5294

                                      As of January 22, 2025

Title: An act relating to transferring dedicated accounts for certain professional licenses to the
     business and professions account.

Brief Description: Transferring dedicated accounts for certain professional licenses to the
     business and professions account.

Sponsors: Senators Gildon, Stanford, Dozier and Nobles; by request of Department of
    Licensing.

Brief History:
     Committee Activity: Business, Financial Services & Trade: 1/23/25.


                                     Brief Summary of Bill
           • Consolidates seven small professional accounts into the Business and
             Professions Account administered by the Department of Licensing.


SENATE COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS, FINANCIAL SERVICES & TRADE

     Staff: Clint McCarthy (786-7319)

     Background: The Business and Professions Account (account) was created in 2005.
     Receipts from business or professional licenses, registrations, certifications, renewals,
     examinations, or civil penalties assessed and collected by the Department of Licensing are
     deposited into the account. The following professions are required to use the account:
        • auctioneers;
        • cosmetologists, barbers, and manicurists;
        • court reporters;
        • private investigators;
        • security guards;
        • bail bond agents;



     This analysis was prepared by non-partisan legislative staff for the use of legislative
     members in their deliberations. This analysis is not part of the legislation nor does it
     constitute a statement of legislative intent.

Senate Bill Report                              -1-                                             SB 5294
         • home inspectors;
         • collection agencies;
         • employment agencies;
         • camping resorts;
         • sellers of travel;
         • notaries public;
         • timeshares;
         • boxing, martial arts, and wrestling;
         • body art, body piercing, and tattooing;
         • whitewater river outfitters;
         • commercial telephone solicitation; and
         • scrap metal businesses.

     Summary of Bill: The list of professions that are required to deposit receipts from business
     or professional licenses, registrations, certifications, renewals, examinations, or civil
     penalties assessed and collected by the Department of Licensing into the account is
     expanded to include the following professions:
        • architects;
        • embalmers and funeral directors;
        • landscape architects;
        • certified real estate appraisers;
        • geologists;
        • appraisal management companies; and
        • the funeral and cemetery board.

     The following accounts are repealed:
        • Architects License Account;
        • Funeral and Cemetery Account;
        • Landscape Architects License Account;
        • Real Estate Appraiser Commission Account;
        • Geologists' Account; and
        • Appraisal Management Company Account.

     Any residual amounts remaining in the repealed accounts as of December 31, 2025, will be
     transferred to the Business and Professions Account. The transfer will be made by the state
     treasurer once the Office of Financial Management has completed the financial statement
     for fiscal year 2025.

     Appropriation: None.

     Fiscal Note: Available.

     Creates Committee/Commission/Task Force that includes Legislative members: No.



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     Effective Date: The bill takes effect on January 1, 2026.




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