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Committee advances bill to shift solid waste tax revenue into SCORE recycling grants
Summary
The House Tax Committee laid out House File 13 59, a bill to redirect more of the state's solid waste management tax revenue to SCORE recycling grants, the author told the committee.
The House Tax Committee laid out House File 13 59, a bill that would reallocate more revenue from the state's solid waste management tax to SCORE grants, the bill's author said during committee testimony.
Representative M. Johnson presented the bill as the SCORE recycling bill, saying it would shift the remaining portion of the solid waste management tax currently going to the general fund back to its original purpose of funding county waste management programs and SCORE grants.
"Currently, 27% of the solid waste management tax revenue is going into the general fund. I believe all the revenue from this tax should be used to manage our waste problems as was originally intended when the tax was…
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