Senate Journal: Page 763: Thursday, April 3, 2003
Members Present: Zieman, Chair; Sievers, Vice Chair; Kibbie, Ranking Member;
Black, Connolly, Courtney, Dearden, Drake, Johnson, Lamberti, Ragan, Schuerer,
Shull, Tinsman, and Veenstra.
Members Absent: None.
Committee Business: Passed HFs 204, 456, 601, and 603 and approved the
Governor’s appointees.
Adjourned: 11:50 a.m.
STUDY BILLS RECEIVED
SSB 1188 Ways and Means
Relating to criteria for community-based seed capital funds and
providing a retroactive applicability date.
SSB 1189 Ways and Means
Relating to state taxes by imposing a single rate tax, eliminating
the deduction for federal income taxes paid, and eliminating the
alternative minimum tax under the individual income tax; by
increasing the sales and use tax rate; and by increasing the state
cigarette and tobacco products tax rates; and including effective and
applicability date provisions.
SSB 1190 Ways and Means
Relating to local taxes and budgets by requiring a super majority
vote on state appropriations funding certain property tax credits and
exemptions and providing local government assistance and on
legislation increasing maximum property tax rates, including certain
law enforcement expenses as general county services, requiring
counties to establish property tax replacement funds, establishing an
ending fund balances limitation for counties, defining terms related
to the county budgeting process, providing for an ad valorem tax on
mobile homes and manufactured homes, allowing counties to employ
a multicounty assessor, relating to property assessment guidelines
and providing for state payment reductions, setting assessment
limitations on residential and agricultural property and on
commercial and industrial property, classifying commercial and
industrial property as one taxation class, allowing for appeal of

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