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Committee advances Budget Implementation Act; amendment altering tire‑tax language deferred to separate bill
Summary
House Bill 1408, the Budget Implementation Act, was advanced to full finance 13-0 after two amendments. Committee members removed proposed recurring statutory tire‑tax reallocation language from the bill and said the change will be pursued as an amendment to a separate bill.
The Finance Ways and Means Subcommittee voted 13‑0 to advance House Bill 1408, the Budget Implementation Act (BIA/BAMP), to the full Finance Committee after adopting two amendments.
Chairman Hicks told members that House Bill 14‑08 contains statutory language required to implement the FY26 budget and that the bill’s changes are nonrecurring. "This is the Budget Implementation Act," Chairman Hicks said during his introduction.
Two amendments (drafting codes 6614 and 7508) were adopted. Chairman Hicks explained that Amendment 1 had originally included language to make a recurring statutory change to reallocate revenues from the tire tax from the general fund to another fund. After legal review, the committee decided it was more appropriate to carry that change as an amendment to a separate bill rather than as recurring statutory language in the implementation act; the drafting language was removed and will be proposed on a different bill, which Chairman Hawk will carry, Hicks said.
With no further discussion, the clerk recorded 13 ayes and 0 nos and the chair announced that House Bill 14‑08 "moves to full finance."
The subcommittee’s action sent the BIA to the full Finance Committee for further review; the committee posted amendment texts and schedules on its dashboard, the chair noted. The subcommittee did not adopt any final permanent statutory reallocations in the bill during this session.
