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House Revenue & Taxation Committee concurs with Senate amendment to preserve Texarkana sales-tax exchange
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Summary
The House Revenue & Taxation Committee voted to concur with Senate Amendment No. 2 to a bill (bill not specified), a change that Representative Kendon Underwood said corrects an engrossing error and preserves a sales-tax exchange for the city of Texarkana.
The House Revenue & Taxation Committee voted to concur with Senate Amendment No. 2 to a bill (bill not specified), a change that Representative Kendon Underwood said corrects an engrossing error and preserves a sales-tax exchange for the city of Texarkana.
Representative Kendon Underwood, R‑District 16, told the committee that "when this bill...got out of the House, it was discovered that there was an engrossing error by the staff. And so we needed to amend the bill in the Senate to just correct that error." He said the amendment also makes a substantive clarification so that Texarkana’s 1% sales tax that functions in place of a municipal income tax is not altered by the bill.
That clarification, Underwood said, applies to a single city in the state — Texarkana — which "because they don't have an income tax, they have...a 1% sales tax" in exchange for not levying an income tax. "We just amended that one portion so that...that sales tax that's in exchange for them not having income taxes is not being changed in the bill," he said.
House Revenue & Taxation Committee Chair (name not specified) called for the committee’s will and, after a motion to concur, asked for the voice vote. The committee approved the concurrence; the chair said, "Congratulations. Your concurrent has passed." The transcript does not record a roll-call tally or who made or seconded the motion.
The action before the committee was limited to Senate Amendment No. 2; other possible amendments were described as already engrossed in the bill and not presented at this meeting. With the concurrence recorded, the committee adjourned.
Why it matters: the amendment fixes a drafting error and explicitly preserves a fiscal arrangement that applies only to Texarkana, ensuring the city's existing 1% sales-tax exchange remains unchanged by the legislation under consideration. The transcript does not identify the bill number, the exact text of the amendment, or a recorded vote tally.
