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Committee removes tire-tax earmark from BIMP; language to be carried in separate bill
Summary
On April 15 the Finance, Ways and Means Committee approved the Budget Implementation Act (House Bill 14-08) but removed language that would have diverted tire sales tax revenue to the highway fund. Committee leaders said legal advice and bill formality prompted moving the tire-tax change to a stand‑alone bill; HB14-08 advanced 27-0.
The committee voted to approve House Bill 14-08, the Budget Implementation Act (BIMP), after adopting committee amendments and stripping language that would have made a recurring statutory change to reallocate tire sales and use tax revenues to the highway fund.
Chairman Hicks said the BIMP "simply makes the statutory changes needed to implement the budget" and explained the change: amendment 1 originally contained language earmarking sales and use tax revenue from new and used tires to the highway fund, with an allocation cap of $80,000,000 for fiscal year 2026. Committee legal advice recommended removing that language from the implementation bill, which typically addresses the single fiscal year, and instead carrying it as an amendment to a separate bill to be carried by Chairman Hawk.
Leader Camper questioned whether the same outcome (earmarking for TDOT) would still occur. Chairman Hicks confirmed the policy goal remains the same but that the "vehicle to get there" will be a separate bill rather than language inside the BIMP.
The committee voted to move House Bill 14-08 to calendar and rules; the clerk recorded 27 ayes, 0 nays.
Ending: House Bill 14-08 moves to calendar and rules with the tire-tax statutory language removed; lawmakers said the tire-tax allocation will be pursued in a separate bill in the coming days.
