Washington Regional Transit Authorities' Taxation Powers Initiative (2018)
| Washington Regional Transit Authorities' Taxation Powers Initiative | |
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| Election date November 6, 2018 | |
| Topic Transportation and Taxes | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Washington Regional Transit Authorities' Taxation Powers Initiative was not put on the ballot in Washington as an Initiative to the Legislature, a type of indirect initiated state statute, on November 6, 2018.
The measure would have prohibited Regional Transit Authorities (RTAs) from levying property taxes and voter-approved motor vehicle excise taxes. The measure would also have capped the voter-approved sales taxes for RTAs at 0.9 percent. The measure would have ended tax levies used to pay for RTA bonds after the bonds were retired, defeased, or refinanced.[1]
Tim Eyman proposed the initiative.
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title is:[1]
| “ | Initiative Measure No. 946 concerns regional transit authority (RTA) taxes and bonds.
This measure would prohibit or limit certain RTA taxes; and require bonds paid by such taxes to be retired, defeased, or refinanced, where permitted, after which the taxes would be terminated or lowered. Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ][2] |
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Ballot summary
The ballot summary is:[1]
| “ | This measure would prohibit regional transit authorities (RTAs) from imposing property taxes and voter-approved motor vehicle excise taxes. It would cap the rate of voter-approved RTA sales taxes at 0.9 percent. If such motor vehicle, property, or sales taxes are pledged to a bond, the bond must be retired, defeased, or refinanced if permitted by the bond contract. Taxes pledged to bonds would be terminated or lowered after the bonds are retired, defeased, or refinanced.[2] | ” |
Path to the ballot
To make the 2018 ballot, proponents of Initiatives to the Legislature were required to submit at least 259,622 valid signatures by December 29, 2017.[3] If certified, initiatives are sent to the Washington House of Representatives and Washington State Senate for consideration. The legislature chooses whether to enact the measure, send it to the 2018 ballot alone, or send it to the ballot alongside an alternative proposition.
Tim Eyman, Leo J. Fagan, and M.J. Fagan filed the initiative with the secretary of state's office.[1]
Version 948 of the initiative was withdrawn on June 21, 2017.[1]
Proponents of the initiative did not submit signatures to the secretary of state's office by the December 29, 2017, deadline and the measure was not put on the ballot.[4]
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Washington Secretary of State, "Proposed Initiatives to the Legislature - 2017," accessed June 20, 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "Elections Calendar - 2017," accessed May 1, 2017
- ↑ Ballotpedia Staff Writer, "Telephone correspondence with the Washington secretary of state's office," January 2, 2018
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