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Committee adopts multiple targeted amendments but advances broad bill to tax additional services and nicotine products

3058639 · April 18, 2025
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Summary

Substitute Senate Bill 5,814, which would extend sales tax to select services and broaden nicotine taxation, received a due‑pass recommendation after the committee adopted and rejected multiple amendments addressing hospitals, telehealth, temporary staffing, advertising services, and nicotine product definitions.

The Senate Ways & Means Committee on April 18 voted to advance substitute Senate Bill 5,814, a large bill that would extend retail sales tax to certain services, broaden the tobacco/nicotine tax base and require a one‑time prepayment of sales tax collections for qualifying businesses. Committee staff estimated multibillion‑dollar revenue impacts in the 2025‑27 biennium and over a four‑year outlook.

Committee members considered a sequence of amendments that narrowed the bill’s scope in several places. Senator Mazzall offered amendments to exempt certain information technology consulting, training and support services purchased by hospitals (Amendment 42) and to exclude hospitals from the definition…

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