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Senate advances but then tables retirement-exemption bill over $20M fiscal concerns
Utah State Senate · February 5, 2002
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Summary
House Bill 50, designed to eliminate a marriage penalty for retirement-income exemptions for seniors, passed to third reading but was immediately tabled after senators raised a roughly $20 million long-term impact to the Uniform School Fund.
House Bill 50, described by sponsor Sen. Bramble as correcting a 'marriage penalty' in retirement-income exemptions for seniors, advanced on the Senate floor but was tabled for fiscal reasons on Feb. 5.
Bramble said the bill raises parity thresholds so married senior taxpayers would be treated the same as two single taxpayers for…
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