BILL · 2009–10 SESSION

HB 2650: Severe economic downturns

Providing local flexibility with existing revenues during severe economic downturns.

Summary

Allows city and county real estate excise taxes to be used for certain maintenance and operation expenditures for capital facilities.
Allows a city and county real estate excise tax to be used for additional capital facilities.
Eliminates non-supplant restrictions for various local sales and use taxes and multi-year property tax lid lifts.
Adds "human services" to the list of permissible expenditures for local criminal justice and public safety sales and use taxes.
Allows local gambling revenue to be used for any public safety purpose.
Allows the state-shared hotel-motel tax to be used for maintaining or enhancing tourism, including public safety improvements.

From the House Bill Analysis 2010 (HB 2650), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to providing local flexibility with existing revenues during severe economic downturns;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

HB 2650 (2025–26) Excise tax administration · Did not pass · passed House, stalled in Senate
HB 2650 (2019–20) Vehicle possessory liens · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 2650 (2017–18) Early intervention services · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 2650 (2015–16) Advertising activity moneys · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 2650 (2013–14) Workforce housing financing · Did not pass · stalled on the House floor
HB 2650 (2011–12) Salmonid hatchery management · Did not pass · passed House, stalled in Senate
HB 2650 (2007–08) Cigarette tax agreement · Enacted · Chapter 228, Laws of 2008
HB 2650 (2005–06) Homelessness · Did not pass · died in committee