Intended audience: County assessors, county treasurers, taxing districts, local governments, and limited equity cooperative housing organizations.
Senate Bill 5713 provides a new exemption for real property owned by a limited equity cooperative (LEC) that provides owned housing for low-income households and changes the definition of “nonprofit” in RCW 84.36.800 to include a limited equity cooperative.
Intended audience: County assessors, cities, counties, local governing authorities, property owners of multi-family housing, nonprofit organizations that provide housing.
The 2021 Legislature passed Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 5287 (E2SSB 5287), making several changes to the multi-family housing property tax exemption. This bill is effective July 25, 2021.
Intended audience: County assessors, county treasurers, taxing districts, local governments, and property owners with homes damaged by natural disasters.
The 2021 Legislature passed several bills relating to property tax administration that take effect July 25, 2021.
Intended audience: County assessors, property tax exemption and deferral program participants.
The 2021 Legislature passed Substitute House Bill 1438 that allows claimants to deduct additional health care related expenses when calculating their combined disposable income for the following property tax relief programs:
The 2017 Legislature passed Engrossed House Bill 2242 (EHB 2242). Among other things, the bill modifies the state school levy, replaces school district maintenance and operation (M&O) levies with enrichment levies, replaces vehicle transportation levies with vehicle transportation enrichment levies, and creates a new maximum levy rate limit for enrichment levies. This notice is limited to a discussion of the effect the bill has on property taxes and property tax levies.
The 2017 Legislature passed Substitute House Bill (SHB) 1747, which took effect July 23, 2017.
The bill revises certain requirements for landowners who withdraw land from a current use classification in the Current Use Program (Program) under chapter 84.34 RCW.
The bill eliminates the requirement that an owner must give a two-year notice to withdraw land from the Program, as long as the land has been in the Program for at least 10 years.
The 2017 Legislature passed House Bill 1283 (HB 1283), which took effect July 23, 2017. The bill eliminates the requirement that the county treasurer collect a deposit of advance tax before the county auditor records a new or altered subdivision of two or more lots.
HB 2479 was passed by the 2018 Legislature. The new law becomes effective June 7, 2018. Starting May 7, 2018, Boards of Equalization (BOE) will notify all parties 22 business days before hearing dates. (This used to be 15 business days’ notice).
This special notice adds information to the previous special notice published on November 21, 2016.
The 2019 Legislature passed Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5313 (ESSB 5313), which takes effect on July 28, 2019. This bill amends school district enrichment levy limitations, local effort assistance, school district reporting requirements to the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), and the State Auditor Office’s (SAO) audit requirements.
This notice addresses school district enrichment levy limitations only.
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