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House Bill 1327 would standardize fees, remove breeder requirement on racing commission and change tax thresholds
Summary
House Bill 1327 was heard Jan. 22 by the State Government & Tribal Relations Committee. The bill would make multiple changes to Washington’s horse-racing statutes, including removing the requirement that one commissioner be a breeder, standardizing a $500 per live race-day license fee, lowering a gross-receipts threshold from $50 million to $20
The State Government & Tribal Relations Committee on Jan. 22 received a staff briefing and public testimony on House Bill 1327, which would amend several provisions of Washington law governing pari-mutuel horse racing.
Connor Schiff, counsel to the committee, summarized the bill’s principal changes: remove the statutory requirement that one of three commissioners be a racehorse breeder; eliminate the prohibition on paying salaries or expenses related to commission work; replace multiple per-day license-fee rates with a uniform $500 per race-day fee for all licensees; lower a statutory threshold for differentiating tax obligations from $50 million in…
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