A bill that would remove the restrictions on a city and county concurrently imposing a cultural access program 0.01% sales tax passed out of committee before the fiscal cutoff. It was voted out of the House Finance Committee on February 4 and is waiting on action in the House Rules Committee. The tax may be used to provide support to nonprofit cultural organizations that provide public programming related to science, technology, visual or performing arts, zoology, botany, anthropology, heritage, or natural history.
HB 2194, sponsored by Rep. Lisa Parshley (D–Olympia), would remove the restriction for a county to impose the tax concurrently when a city has adopted the tax. If a county and city both impose the tax, similar to other local sales taxes, the county tax must allow a credit for the amount of tax imposed by the city within its boundaries.