Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Relating to: state payments for municipal services and making an appropriation. (FE)
Municipality — Finance Municipality — Officers Property tax
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, instead of paying property taxes, the state pays municipalities for municipal services provided to state facilities located in the municipalities. The state negotiates the payment amount with each municipality based on the state’s calculation of the value of state property located in the municipality. If the appropriation for making the payments for municipal services is insufficient for paying the full amount of all the negotiated payments, the state prorates the payments among the municipalities.
Under this bill, the state pays the full amount of all payments to municipalities for municipal services.
What it would cost
Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs
Sponsors
Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Bare (D) , Clancy (D) , Hong (D) , Joers (D) , Madison (D) , McCarville (D) , Miresse (D) , Palmeri (D) , Roe (D) , Sheehan (D) , Sinicki (D) , Stubbs (D)
7 cosponsors
Dassler-Alfheim (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Larson (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Subeck (D)
Full history
- Mar 13, 2026 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Hong, Palmeri, Anderson, Bare, Joers, Sinicki, McCarville, Miresse, Sheehan, Roe, Stubbs, Clancy and Madison; cosponsored by Senators Roys, Dassler-Alfheim, Larson, Ratcliff and Spreitzer
- Mar 13, 2026 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Local Government
- Mar 19, 2026 · Assembly
Representative Subeck added as a coauthor
- Mar 20, 2026 · Assembly
Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor
- Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
- Mar 24, 2026 · Assembly
Fiscal estimate received