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Senate approves agricultural sales tax exemption; adds legislative-intent language clarifying scope
Summary
Senators passed Senate Bill 43 on Jan. 27, 1995 (19–10), and the sponsor successfully moved to record a legislative-intent statement clarifying that the measure is not intended to single out hay while preserving the exemption's application to normal farm feed products.
The Utah State Senate passed Senate Bill 43, an agricultural sales tax exemption, on Jan. 27, 1995, and voted to include a legislative-intent statement in the journal clarifying the bill’s scope.
Senator Lyle Hilliard, the sponsor, asked that the legislative-intent language read earlier be recorded with the vote. ‘‘As sponsor of the bill ... it is not our intent by singling hay out to exclude all of the other feed products that are normally used in a farming operation,’’ Hilliard said, emphasizing the measure’s intent to exempt typical farm feed items rather than single out hay.
After Hilliard’s request, the Senate approved the motion to include the legislative-intent language and then took the question on final passage. The roll call showed 19 ayes and 10 nays; the President announced the bill passed and will be sent to the House for further consideration.
Senators asked and received brief clarifications about whether the bill would allow taxing hay; the floor exchange made clear the sponsor’s intent was to preserve broad exemptions for feed used in farming. With the intent language recorded in the journal, senators proceeded to a recorded vote on the bill’s passage.
The passage advances the statutory change to exempt certain agricultural sales from sales tax and records the sponsor’s clarification as part of the legislative history accompanying the vote.
The bill’s recorded vote and the insertion of the legislative-intent language are now part of the Senate journal and will travel with the measure as it moves to the Utah House of Representatives.
