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Committee debates BHIP/VHIP design, sales-tax exemption and homelessness priority
Summary
House General and Housing members discussed the Behavioral Housing Investment Program (BHIP/VHIP) design, whether a sales-tax exemption for construction materials should be scored by JFO, and whether the 10-year program should retain a homelessness-priority requirement.
Members of the House General and Housing Committee reviewed BHIP (also discussed as VHIP in testimony) program language in the latest committee bill and asked staff to seek clarifying information from the Joint Fiscal Office and Department of Housing and Community Development.
Committee members raised three related issues: whether the bill’s placeholder language on a sales-tax exemption for construction materials for housing projects needs fiscal scoring from the Joint Fiscal Office (JFO), how to balance a 5-year versus 10-year program design, and whether the 10-year option should retain…
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