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Senate committee backs sales-tax exemption for food bank vehicles and homeless-housing trailers

3426968 · May 21, 2025
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Summary

The Finance Committee reported House Bill 4226, adding food-bank vehicles (and, by committee substitute, some trailers used to house homeless individuals) to state motor-vehicle sales-tax exemptions. Houston Food Bank testified the exemption preserves operating funds for meals.

Senator Campbell presented House Bill 4226 to the Senate Finance Committee to add food-bank vehicles to the list of motor-vehicle sales-tax exemptions and, by committee substitute, to extend an exemption to trailers purchased for purposes of housing people experiencing…

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