Executive Session: HB 1035 – Providing local governments with options to grant rent relief and preserve affordable housing in their communities. HB 1058 – Modifying the sales and use tax for cultural access programs by allowing the tax to be imposed by a councilmanic or commission authority and defining timelines and priorities for action. HB 1460 – Closing the digital divide by establishing excise taxes on telecommunications services to fund the expansion of the universal service programs in Washington; Public Hearing: SHB 1033 – Concerning the Washington customized employment training program. (Remote testimony.) HB 1503 – Establishing an alternative fuel vehicle retail sales and use tax exemption for lower-income individuals. (Remote testimony.) HB 1330 – Providing a retail sales and use tax exemption for the purchase of electric bicycles and related cycling equipment. (Remote testimony.) HB 1285 – Modifying the business and occupation tax exemption for certain fruit and vegetable businesses. (Remote testimony.) HB 1380 – Restoring the business and occupation and public utility tax exemption for custom farming and hauling farm products. (Remote testimony.)
House Finance Committee
