CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2541

                        53rd Legislature

                      1994 Regular Session

Passed by the House February 9, 1994   Yeas 94   Nays 0 Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 1, 1994   Yeas 46   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Marilyn Showalter, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2541 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2541

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             Passed Legislature - 1994 Regular Session

State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

By House Committee on Revenue (originally sponsored by Representatives Cothern, Brown, Foreman, Romero, Brough, J. Kohl, Van Luven, Rust and Talcott; by request of Department of Revenue)

Read first time 02/02/94.

Clarifying the business and occupation tax on newspapers.

    AN ACT Relating to defining newspapers for tax purposes; amending RCW 82.04.214; and creating a new section.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 82.04.214 and 1993 sp.s. c 25 s 304 are each amended to read as follows:

    "Newspaper" means a publication issued regularly at stated intervals at least ((once a week)) twice a month and printed on newsprint in tabloid or broadsheet format folded loosely together without stapling, glue, or any other binding of any kind.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  This act shall apply retroactively to July 1, 1993.

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