Creating an exemption to the water services excise tax for water sold or furnished by a nonprofit organization

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedFebruary 21, 2019
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 27, 2019
3. ✕
   Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the House
5. Next: Senate committee
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill creates an exemption to the water services excise tax. The bill exempts from the water services excise tax the sale or furnishing of water through a piped distribution system by a nonprofit organization to a consumer or user of the water, if the price charged for the sale or furnishing of water by the nonprofit organization is not more than the rate charged for consuming or using water from the nearest water utility. The bill defines “nonprofit organization”.

Full bill text¹

House subcommittee

Named February 27, 2019. It hasn’t reported yet.

• Rep. Anne Osmundson R
• Rep. Gaskill
• Rep. David E. Maxwell R

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