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House negotiates and adopts substitute on sales-tax earmark for water and transportation
Summary
The House extensively debated S.B. 49, adopted substitutes that altered earmarks between water and transportation accounts and deferred enactment dates. After multiple substitute motions and detailed allocations among drinking-water, wastewater and development accounts, the House passed a negotiated substitute with a large majority.
Lawmakers engaged in extended debate on S.B. 49, a measure that revises prior sales-tax earmarking between water projects and transportation. Sponsors explained the bill’s intent: to reallocate a portion of the sales-tax earmark previously created under last year’s measure and to specify distribution among water development, wastewater, drinking-water programs, and transportation accounts.
The floor saw multiple procedural maneuvers: sponsors offered second and third substitutes, members moved to substitute title and body language, and some…
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