SSB 5386 — Reducing administrative complexity by increasing transparency of revenue flows for activities funded by document recording fees.

What this bill does

Consolidates the four housing-related document-recording surcharges into one new surcharge with simplified distributions and uniform exemptions. Eliminates the Transitional Housing Operating and Rent Account. Removes the requirement for the Office of Financial Management to secure an independent expenditure review of state surcharge funds received and deposited into the Home Security Fund Account on a biennial basis. Removes the requirement for the Department of Commerce to include the amount of expenditures for private rental housing payments in the report on state and local homelessness document-recording fee expenditures by county.

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Floor votes

• House — Final Passage as Amended by the House · April 11, 2023
  92 yea · 5 nay · 1 not voting
• Senate — Final Passage as Amended by the House · April 17, 2023
  48 yea · 0 nay · 1 not voting
• Senate — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 3, 2023
  48 yea · 0 nay · 1 not voting

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