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Panel clears batch of Local and Private bills including hotel-motel taxes, trust and bond changes
Summary
A legislative panel approved a series of Local and Private bills that authorize local hotel-motel taxes, adjust trust-fund spending rules, set court fees and permit bond and district expansions; most passed by voice vote with roll-call tallies not specified.
Speaker 1, a staff member, presented a package of Local and Private bills and moved that they be reported favorably; Speaker 2, a member, interjected at points during the discussion. The panel approved a series of measures affecting municipalities’ taxing authority, trust-fund spending, local court fees and municipal bonding authority.
The measures approved include authorization for local contributions to transit and elderly transportation programs, extensions of temporary repealers tied to hotel-motel-restaurant taxes for tourism, adjustments to trust-fund expenditure rules following hospital property sales, increases to a small nonprofit’s annual administrative allocation, and authorizations to raise bonding capacity tied to property sales. Most motions carried by voice vote; no roll-call vote tallies or individual yes/no votes were recorded in the transcript.
Votes at a glance: House/Local bills — outcome: passed (voice votes; tallies not specified) - City of Philadelphia:…
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