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BILL · 2023–24 SESSION

SB 5847: Prorate & fuel tax collect.

Enhancing prorate and fuel tax collections by improving taxpayer compliance, providing additional enforcement mechanisms, and protecting confidential taxpayer information.

Summary

  • Provides additional authority to the Department of Licensing (DOL) to enforce fuel tax requirements.
  • Requires DOL to establish a prorate and fuel tax discovery team to detect and investigate fuel tax and proportional registration violations, with authority to seek search warrants, issue subpoenas, perform inspections, and investigate and assess alleged civil violations.
  • Makes a person other than a licensee who is engaged in the business of selling, purchasing, distributing, storing, transporting, or delivering fuel and who fails to submit required tax reports to DOL subject to civil and criminal penalties.
  • Requires a fuel licensee who has a fuel license revoked to submit an application for reinstatement and to resolve all outstanding violations, non-compliance items, and debts owed prior to issuance of a new license.
  • Exempts fuel tax reports submitted to DOL from public inspection and copying.

From the Senate Bill Report (SB 5847), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
  1. IntroducedJan 8, 2024
  2. Out of committeeJan 29, 2024
  3. Passed Senatestopped here
  4. Passed House
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Marko Liias (D-21)
Introduced
January 8, 2024 in the Senate
Last action
February 15, 2024
Requested by
State agency
Companion bill
EHB 1964
Budget
Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to enhancing prorate and fuel tax collections by improving taxpayer compliance, providing additional enforcement mechanisms, and protecting confidential taxpayer information;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Marko Liias (D-21)

5 co-sponsors (4 Democrats, 1 Republican)

Curtis King R-14Bob Hasegawa D-11T'wina Nobles D-28Sharon Shewmake D-42Claire Wilson D-30

Votes

No recorded floor votes.

History

  1. Senate Rules "X" file.
  2. Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
  3. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
  4. Minority; without recommendation.
  5. TRAN - Majority; do pass.
  6. First reading, referred to Transportation.
  7. Prefiled for introduction.

SB 5847 in other sessions

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