File #: 2010-0478    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 8/30/2010 In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Committee
On agenda: 10/11/2010 Final action: 10/11/2010
Enactment date: Enactment #: 16946
Title: AN ORDINANCE changing the rate of the excise tax on switched access lines and radio access lines and imposing an excise tax on interconnected voice over Internet protocol service lines in King County for the continued operations of an enhanced 911 emergency telephone system; and amending Ordinance 6875, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.34.010, Ordinance 6875, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.34.020, Ordinance 6875, Section 3, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.34.030, Ordinance 6875, Section 4, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.34.040 and Ordinance 11589, Section 4, and K.C.C. 4.34.045.
Sponsors: Julia Patterson
Indexes: Emergency 911, Taxes
Attachments: 1. 16946.pdf, 2. 2010-0478 Transmittal Letter.doc, 3. 2010-0478 Fiscal Note.xls, 4. Staff Report 09-21-10, 5. 2010-0478 Hearing Notice.doc, 6. 16946.pdf
Staff: Resha, John
Drafter
Clerk 08/25/2010
Title
AN ORDINANCE changing the rate of the excise tax on switched access lines and radio access lines and imposing an excise tax on interconnected voice over Internet protocol service lines in King County for the continued operations of an enhanced 911 emergency telephone system; and amending Ordinance 6875, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.34.010, Ordinance 6875, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.34.020, Ordinance 6875, Section 3, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.34.030, Ordinance 6875, Section 4, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.34.040 and Ordinance 11589, Section 4, and K.C.C. 4.34.045.
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PREAMBLE:
King County implemented an enhanced 911 emergency communications system twenty-five years ago in 1985 and provides service to two million 911 callers each year. Funding for the enhanced 911 emergency communications system has been provided through 911 excise taxes on switched access lines and radio access lines, and the rate of the taxes has been fifty cents per month since January 1, 2003. King County has collected the taxes.
Changes in communications technology have enabled new types of devices to access 911, and have created the need to upgrade the enhanced 911 emergency communications system to next generation 911 technology in order to continue to meet the needs of the public.
The Washington state Legislature passed Substitute Senate Bill 6846, which became Chapter 19, Laws of Washington 2010 1st Special Session, to authorize counties to increase the 911 excise taxes on switched access lines and radio access lines to seventy cents per month, and to extend the 911 excise tax of seventy cents per month to interconnected voice over Internet protocol service lines, in order to provide funding for the continued operation of the enhanced 911 emergency communications system, including the upgrade to next generation 911 technology.
Additionally, Chapter 19, Laws of Washington 2010 1st Special Session requires county 911 excise taxes to be rem...

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