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H0531...............................................by REVENUE AND TAXATION
SALES TAX - EXEMPTIONS - Amends existing law relating to sales and use tax
by including the Idaho Women's and Children's Alliance within the
definition of a health-related entity for purposes of a sales tax
exemption.
02/08 House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/09 Rpt prt - to Rev/Tax
03/21 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/22 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
Rules susp - PASSED - 62-1-7
AYES -- Alltus, Barraclough, Barrett, Bell, Bieter, Black, Boe,
Bruneel, Callister, Campbell, Chase, Cheirrett, Clark, Crow, Cuddy,
Deal, Denney, Ellsworth, Field(13), Field(20), Gagner, Geddes,
Hadley, Hammond, Hansen(29), Henbest, Hornbeck, Jaquet, Judd,
Kellogg, Kempton, Kendell, Kunz, Lake, Loertscher, Mader, Marley,
Meyer, Montgomery, Mortensen, Moss, Moyle, Pearce, Pischner, Pomeroy,
Reynolds, Ridinger, Ringo, Robison, Sali, Schaefer, Sellman,
Shepherd, Smith, Smylie, Stevenson, Stoicheff, Stone, Taylor, Tilman,
Wood, Zimmermann
NAYS -- McKague
Absent and excused -- Gould, Hansen(23), Jones, Linford, Trail,
Wheeler, Mr Speaker
Floor Sponsor - Stone
Title apvd - to Senate
03/23 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to Loc Gov
03/28 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/29 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
04/04 3rd rdg - PASSED - 35-0-0
AYES -- Andreason, Boatright, Bunderson, Burtenshaw, Cameron, Crow,
Danielson, Darrington, Davis, Deide, Dunklin, Frasure, Geddes,
Hawkins, Ingram, Ipsen, Keough, King-Barrutia, Lee, McLaughlin, Noh,
Parry, Richardson, Riggs, Risch, Sandy, Schroeder, Sorensen, Stegner,
Stennett, Thorne, Walton, Wheeler, Whitworth, Williams
NAYS -- None
Absent and excused -- None
Floor Sponsor - Wheeler
Title apvd - to House
04/05 To enrol - rpt enrol - Sp signed - Pres signed
04/06 To Governor
04/14 Governor signed
Session Law Chapter 309
Effective: 07/01/00
H0531
|||| LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ||||
Fifty-fifth Legislature Second Regular Session - 2000
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
HOUSE BILL NO. 531
BY REVENUE AND TAXATION COMMITTEE
1 AN ACT
2 RELATING TO SALES AND USE TAX; AMENDING SECTION 63-3622O, IDAHO CODE, TO
3 INCLUDE THE IDAHO WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE WITHIN THE DEFINITION OF
4 A HEALTH-RELATED ENTITY AND TO MAKE A TECHNICAL CORRECTION.
5 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
6 SECTION 1. That Section 63-3622O, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
7 amended to read as follows:
8 63-3622O. EXEMPT PRIVATE AND PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS. (1) There are exempted
9 from the taxes imposed by this chapter:
10 (a) Sales to or purchases by hospitals, health-related entities, educa-
11 tional institutions, forest protective associations and canal companies
12 which are nonprofit organizations; and
13 (b) Donations to, sales to, and purchases by the Idaho Foodbank Ware-
14 house, Inc.; and
15 (c) Donations to, sales to, and purchases by food banks or soup kitchens
16 of food or other tangible personal property used by food banks or soup
17 kitchens in the growing, storage, preparation or service of food, but not
18 including motor vehicles or trailers; and
19 (d) Sales of clothes to, donations of clothes to, and purchases of
20 clothes by nonsale clothiers; and
21 (e) Sales to or purchases by centers for independent living; and
22 (f) Sales to or purchases by the state of Idaho and its agencies and its
23 political subdivisions.
24 (2) As used in this section, these words shall have the following mean-
25 ings:
26 (a) "Educational institution" shall mean nonprofit colleges, universi-
27 ties, public charter schools organized pursuant to chapter 52, title 33,
28 Idaho Code, and other primary and secondary schools, the income of which
29 is devoted solely to education and in which systematic instruction in the
30 usual branches of learning is given. This definition does not include
31 schools primarily teaching business, dancing, dramatics, music, cosmetol-
32 ogy, writing, gymnastics, exercise and other special accomplishments nor
33 parent-teacher associations, parent groups, alumni or other auxiliary
34 organizations with purposes related to the educational function of an
35 institution or collective group of institutions.
36 (b) "Hospital" shall include nonprofit institutions licensed by the state
37 for the care of ill persons. It shall not extend to nursing homes or simi-
38 lar institutions.
39 (c) "Health-related entities" shall mean the Idaho Cystic Fibrosis Foun-
40 dation, Idaho Epilepsy League, Idaho Lung Association, March of Dimes,
41 American Cancer Society, Mental Health Association, The Arc, The
42 Children's Home Society of Idaho, Idaho Heart Association, Idaho Ronald
43 McDonald House, United Cerebral Palsy, Arthritis Foundation, Muscular Dys-
2
1 trophy Foundation, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Rocky Mountain
2 Kidney Association, American Diabetes Association, Easter Seals, Idaho
3 Community Action Agencies, Idaho Primary Care Association and community
4 health centers who are members of the Idaho Primary Care Association and
5 Idaho Special Olympics, and the Idaho Women's and Children's Alliance,
6 together with said entities' local or regional chapters or divisions.
7 (d) "Canal companies" shall include nonprofit corporations which are
8 incorporated solely for the purpose of operating and maintaining and are
9 engaged solely in operation and maintenance of dams, reservoirs, canals,
10 lateral and drainage ditches, pumps or pumping plants.
11 (e) "Forest protective associations" shall mean associations whose pur-
12 pose is the furnishing, operating and maintaining of a protective system
13 for the detection, prevention and suppression of forest or range fires.
14 Forest protective associations shall include only those associations with
15 which the state of Idaho has contracted or become a member of pursuant to
16 chapter 1, title 38, Idaho Code.
17 (f) "Food banks or soup kitchens" shall mean any nonprofit corporation or
18 association, other than the Idaho Foodbank Warehouse, Inc., one of whose
19 regular activities is the furnishing or providing of food or food products
20 to others without charge.
21 (g) "Nonsale clothier" shall mean any nonprofit corporation or associa-
22 tion one of whose primary purposes is the furnishing or providing of
23 clothes to others without charge.
24 (h) "Clothes" shall mean garments in general, designed or intended to be
25 worn by humans and shall include footwear in addition to wearing apparel.
26 (i) "Center for independent living" shall mean a private, nonprofit, non-
27 residential nonresidential organization in which at least fifty-one per-
28 cent (51%) of the principal governing board, management and staff are
29 individuals with disabilities and that:
30 (i) Is designed and operated within a local community by individu-
31 als with disabilities;
32 (ii) Provides an array of independent living services and programs;
33 and
34 (iii) Is cross-disability.
35 (j) "Political subdivision" means:
36 (i) A governmental organization which:
37 1. Embraces a certain territory,
38 2. Is organized for public advantage and not in the interest of
39 private individuals or classes,
40 3. Has been delegated functions of government, and
41 4. Has the statutory power to levy taxes; or
42 (ii) A public health district created by section 39-408, Idaho
43 Code; or
44 (iii) A soil conservation district as defined in section 22-2717,
45 Idaho Code; or
46 (iv) A drainage district created pursuant to chapter 29, title 42,
47 Idaho Code; or
48 (v) An irrigation district created pursuant to title 43, Idaho
49 Code; or
50 (vi) A state grazing board created by section 57-1204, Idaho Code;
51 or
52 (vii) A water measurement district created pursuant to section
53 42-705 or 42-706, Idaho Code; or
54 (viii) A ground water management district created pursuant to chapter
55 51, title 42, Idaho Code.
3
1 (k) "Agency of the state of Idaho" shall mean an office or organization
2 created by the constitution or statutes of this state and constituting a
3 component part of the executive, judicial or legislative branch of the
4 government of this state.
5 (3) The exemption granted by subsection (1)(f) of this section does not
6 include any association or other organization whose members are political sub-
7 divisions or state agencies unless the organization is expressly created under
8 the joint powers provision of sections 67-2328 through 67-2333, Idaho Code.
9 (4) The exemptions granted by subsection (1) of this section do not
10 include the use of tangible personal property by a contractor used to improve
11 real property of an exempt entity when such use is within the definition pro-
12 vided by section 63-3615(b), Idaho Code, whether the use tax liability is
13 included in a contract total or stated separately in a contract.
14 (5) There is exempted from the taxes imposed in this chapter, the renting
15 of a place to sleep to an individual by the Idaho Ronald McDonald House.
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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS 09839
This bill includes the Women's and Children's Alliance in the list of
"health-related entities" that are exempt from sales tax. The primary function of
the WCA is to operate the state's largest shelter for battered women and their
children and to operate a rape crisis hotline. The WCA is a private, non-profit
organization funded through grants, donations and fund-raising events.
FISCAL IMPACT
The state recently began enforcing the requirement that non-profit organizations
pay sales tax on sale of tickets to fund-raising events or sale of t-shirts and similar
items to raise funds. The WCA has followed the practice of similar non-profit
organizations on not collecting this tax in the past so this aspect of the bill would
be revenue neutral. The state would lose the amount the WCA pays in sales tax
each year for products it purchases for it's own operation, which is roughly $2600
a year.
Contact
Name: Rep Ruby R Stone
Phone: 332-1000
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE Bill No. 531