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Senate narrows county arts tax after heated debate; substitute SB 109 advances to third reading
Summary
After several hours of debate over how revenues should be shared, the Utah Senate removed a statewide‑sharing provision from substitute SB 109 — a county option sales tax to fund botanical, cultural and zoological organizations — and voted to advance the bill to third reading.
Salt Lake City — The Utah Senate on Feb. 18 debated substitute Senate Bill 109, a county‑option sales tax measure that would let counties ask voters to impose a 0.1 percent sales tax to support botanical, cultural and zoological organizations. After extended floor debate about whether revenue collected in one county should be redistributed to participating counties, the body voted to remove language that required statewide sharing and then advanced the substitute to third reading.
Senator Bartle, the bill’s floor sponsor, said the measure would “permit the voters, if they want, to vote on increasing their sales tax within their county by 1 tenth of 1%,” arguing the option would…
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