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Utah House narrows 'wrap' tax reauthorization, extends city rights in second-class counties
Summary
After hours of debate, the House passed a substitute to House Bill 64 clarifying when counties and cities may pursue a local 0.1% "wrap" sales tax for recreation, arts and parks and amended the reauthorization cycle from 10 to eight years. Supporters said it equalizes rights across counties; opponents warned longer terms reduce voter oversight.
The Utah House of Representatives passed first substitute House Bill 64 on Feb. 3, 2004, updating who may seek a one‑tenth of 1% local "wrap" sales tax for recreation, arts and parks and establishing an eight‑year reauthorization cycle for those levies.
Representative Cheryl Allen, the bill sponsor, told colleagues the substitute clarifies that cities in second‑class counties will have the same opportunity to ask voters for a wrap tax as cities in third through sixth class counties, but that a county may not superimpose its own wrap tax over one already…
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