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Senate advances bill narrowing roadside-stand sales-tax exemption despite objections
Summary
Senate debate over SB 43 centered on narrowing a longstanding sales-tax exemption for seasonal roadside agricultural sales; sponsor said the change clarifies intent and yields a $275,000 fiscal note, opponents warned it risks taxing processing inputs and creating administrative confusion. The amendment to preserve processing exemptions failed and SB 43 passed second reading 18–11.
Senate President Beatty presided as senators debated Senate Bill 43, which narrows an agricultural sales-tax exemption for seasonal roadside stands and limits the exemption to "locally produced" goods, excluding certain processing inputs.
Senator Hilliard, sponsor of SB 43, told the Senate the bill "narrows the exemption to what we think it was originally intended to be" and said the change was approved by the tax revenue and tax review committees. He noted a fiscal note of about $275,000 tied to the change. "What this bill does again is it narrows the exemption," Hilliard said, citing committee agreement and…
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