Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Relating to: sales tax exemption certificates for the sale of precious metal bullion. (FE)
Personal property Revenue department of Sales tax — Exemption Sanitation and sewerage management
- 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
Current law provides a sales and use tax exemption for the sale of precious metal bullion. In order to claim the exemption, the purchaser must provide an exemption certificate to the seller. The certificate is an electronic or paper certificate prescribed by the Department of Revenue. Under current law, many sales and use tax exemptions do not require the purchaser to provide an exemption certificate at the time of purchase. This bill eliminates the certificate requirement to claim the exemption for the sale of precious metal bullion.
What it would cost
Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs
Sponsors
Introduced by: Armstrong (R) , Behnke (R) , J. Jacobson (D) , Krug (R) , Melotik (R) , Murphy (R) , O'Connor (R) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Penterman (R) , Sortwell (R)
5 cosponsors
Cabral-Guevara (R) , Knodl (R) , Nass (R) , Ratcliff (D) , Spreitzer (D)
Votes
Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0
Passed 10–0 Jan 14, 2026 official source full pageNo individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.
Full history
- Dec 17, 2025 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Sortwell, O'Connor, J. Jacobson, Behnke, Krug, Murphy, Ortiz-Velez, Penterman, Armstrong and Melotik; cosponsored by Senators Cabral-Guevara, Spreitzer and Nass
- Dec 17, 2025 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means
- Dec 22, 2025 · Assembly
Representative Knodl added as a coauthor
- Dec 29, 2025 · Assembly
Fiscal estimate received
- Jan 8, 2026 · Assembly
Public hearing held
- Jan 13, 2026 · Assembly
Executive action taken
- Jan 14, 2026 · Assembly
Report passage recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0
- Jan 14, 2026 · Assembly
Referred to committee on Rules
- Feb 13, 2026 · Assembly
Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 2-17-2026
- Feb 17, 2026 · Assembly
Laid on the table
- Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly
Senator Ratcliff added as a cosponsor
- Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1