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Committee approves measure to expand electricity sales-tax exemption for fuel transport
Summary
House Bill 311 passed the Revenue Committee after members approved language expanding the sales-tax exemption for electricity used to move fuel from well sites through gathering lines and pipelines; the Department of Revenue noted ongoing litigation and said the bill would alter a prior interpretation.
The House Revenue Committee approved House Bill 311, an amendment to sales-tax treatment for electricity used to transport oil, natural gas and other hydrocarbons, extending the exemption to gathering and feeder lines that move product from well sites to intermediate collection or transmission points.
Representative Lean described the bill as targeted to “the feeder pipelines” that move hydrocarbons from well sites to larger interstate transmission points. The bill amends statutory language to define pipeline to include gathering systems and to make the exemption apply “regardless of the…
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