Sales and use tax; school supplies and hurricane preparedness sales tax holidays. (SB1336)

Introduced By

Sen. Scott Surovell (D-Mount Vernon)

Progress

Introduced
Passed Committee
Passed House
Passed Senate
Signed by Governor
Became Law

Description

School supplies and hurricane preparedness sales tax holidays. Adds to the existing sales tax holiday for school supplies, clothing, and footwear an exemption for computers sold at $700 or less. The bill reduces the threshold for exempt clothing or footwear to $65 or less. The bill removes from the hurricane preparedness sales tax holiday the exemption for generators. The bill extends the sunset dates for the school supplies and hurricane preparedness sales tax holidays from 2017 to 2022. Read the Bill »

Outcome

Bill Has Failed

History

DateAction
01/10/2017Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101098D
01/10/2017Referred to Committee on Finance
01/22/2017Impact statement from TAX (SB1336)
01/31/2017Passed by indefinitely in Finance (11-Y 5-N) (see vote tally)