In addition to Sen. Braun’s proposal to dedicate state sales tax revenues from the sale of motor vehicles to transportation, several other bills affecting taxes and the budget process have been prefiled in the Legislature to date.

• SB 6031 (Sen. Fortunato) and the identical HB 2227 (Reps. Young and Walsh) would enact Initiative 976, which has been stayed until the courts determine if it is constitutional. To the text of I-976, the bills add an emergency clause so that it would take effect immediately (except for the sections about Sound Transit’s bonds) and they specify that the bills would apply retroactively to Dec. 5, 2019 (the date I-976 would have gone into effect had it not been stayed).
• HB 2222 (Rep. Walsh) would reduce the state property tax in calendar years 2021 through 2023.
• SB 6059 (Sen. Becker) would exempt health care services from the business and occupation (B&O) tax surcharge that was enacted earlier this year (E2SHB 2158).
• SB 6055 (Sen. O’Ban) would exempt the same health care services from the B&O tax surcharge as in SB 6059, and it would additionally exempt veterinary services.
• SB 6056 (Sen. Randall) would make developmental disability services an entitlement and require the Caseload Forecast Council to forecast the number of people expected to be eligible.
• HB 2224 (Rep. Walsh) would require the Office of Financial Management (OFM) to “provide a reasonable projection of the range of potential fiscal impact” in any case where the fiscal impact statement for a ballot measure is indeterminate.
• HB 2225 (Rep. Walsh) would create a legislative budget office, which would take over the duty of providing fiscal notes for legislation from OFM.

More bills will be prefiled before the session begins in January. As Jim Camden writes in the Spokesman-Review, December is “Legislative Bill Prefiling Month.”