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Senate restores original sales-tax distribution bill after floor fight; file 60 passes
Summary
Senate File 60 (sales and use tax distribution) passed the Senate after a sequence of major floor amendments, a delay amendment and a final motion that returned the bill to its original text. Lawmakers debated distribution formulas, hardship protections for small towns and the scale of the revenue shift.
Senators debated and then approved Senate File 60 — a bill addressing sales and use tax distribution — after a complex sequence of third-reading amendments and roll-call votes on Jan. 29.
The measure’s floor history began with a major 3rd-reading amendment offered by Senator Hicks that would have captured roughly the first $73 million (figures cited on the floor varied between $73M and $76M) of sales and used that pool to fund a statutorily specified local distribution formula and hardship allocations. Supporters of that amendment said it would provide predictable, recurring funding for cities, towns and counties; opponents said the amendment had grown the bill well beyond the sponsor’s original intent and raised constitutional and fiscal concerns.
After extended floor debate, multiple senators proposed and voted on…
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