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Senate committee adopts amendment to include all counties, townships in 3¢ gas-tax distribution
Summary
The Senate Finance and Taxation Committee approved an amendment to House Bill 1382 to ensure the proposed 3-cent per gallon gas tax would send one penny each to cities, counties and townships statewide — including oil-producing counties previously carved out — but the committee paused further action on the bill pending broader DOT budget work.
At a Finance and Taxation Committee meeting, the panel adopted an amendment to House Bill 1382 that changes how a proposed 3-cent-per-gallon gas tax would be distributed and removes a prior exclusion for oil-producing counties and townships.
The amendment approved Wednesday would allocate the 3-cent increase as one penny to cities, one penny to counties and one penny to townships. Committee members struck language that had excluded oil-producing counties and townships from receiving the allocations,…
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