WA People
BILL · 1997–98 SESSION

SB 5214: Property tax relief

Providing property tax relief.

Summary

  • Provides that there is allowed a credit against the state regular real property tax equal to the tax imposed on the first sixty-two thousand dollars of assessed valuation of owner-occupied residential property, multiplied by the indicated ratio fixed by the state department of revenue. Declares that the credit in any tax year shall not exceed the amount of state property tax imposed on the property.

From the Bill Digest (SB 5214), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 20, 1997
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed Senate
  4. Passed House
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Betti Sheldon (D-23)
Introduced
January 20, 1997 in the Senate
Last action
January 12, 1998
Companion bill
HB 1041
Budget
Has a fiscal note

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Betti Sheldon (D-23)

24 co-sponsors (19 Democrats, 5 Republicans)

Sid Snyder D-19Valoria Loveland D-16Harriet Spanel D-40Ken Jacobsen D-46Darlene Fairley D-32Rosemary McAuliffe D-1Lisa Brown D-3Calvin Goings D-25Michael Heavey D-34Julia Patterson D-33R. Lorraine Wojahn D-27Rosa Franklin D-29Pat Thibaudeau D-43Jim Hargrove D-24Marilyn Rasmussen D-2Mary Margaret Haugen D-10Margarita Prentice D-11Karen Fraser D-22Dan Swecker R-20Jeanne Kohl-Welles D-36Joseph Zarelli R-18Bob Oke R-26Jeannette Wood R-21Harold Hochstatter R-13

Votes

1 other recorded vote (amendments, procedural motions)

Senate · MOTION BY SENATOR SNYDER TO RELIEVE THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS OF FURTHER CONSIDERATION AND PLACE THE BILL ON SECOND READING - FAILED.

January 20, 1997
Version voted on: SB 5214
19 Yea 26 Nay 0 Absent 2 Excused
PartyYeaNayAbsentExcused
Democrat19002
Republican02600
How each member voted
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History

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SB 5214 in other sessions

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