SEATTLE (AP) — An initiative that would cut car tabs to $30 will go to the Legislature for consideration, according to the Washington Secretary of State’s Office.

Initiative 976, brought by anti-tax guru Tim Eyman, was certified after collecting enough signatures.

The Legislature will decide whether to approve the lower tab fee as written in the initiative, but if it declines, the initiative will go to voters in November 2019.

The measure would stifle Sound Transit, which relies on substantial car-tab taxes to fund light rail and bus service expansion throughout the Puget Sound region.

It also would deal a financial blow to over 60 cities and towns that charge an additional tab fee to fund their transportation projects.

Sound Transit 3, which more than tripled car-tab taxes in the Puget Sound region, passed with about 54 percent of the vote in 2016, as voters chose to fund a massive expansion of public transit.

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