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2005 SESSION
HB 1638 Retail Sales & Use Tax; reduction of rate on food purchased for human consumption, effective date.
Introduced by: Vincent F. Callahan, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Sales and use tax; food for human consumption. Reduces the rate of the state sales and use tax on food for human consumption to 1.5 percent beginning July 1, 2005. Under current law the rate of the state sales and use tax on food is 3 percent, and is scheduled gradually to be reduced to 1.5 percent by July 1, 2007. The bill incorporates HBs 1634, 1635, 1875, 2017, 2339, and 2421.
FULL TEXT
- 12/17/04 House: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 053064260 pdf | impact statement
- 01/24/05 House: Committee substitute printed 053100260-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/24/05 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1638ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/31/05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0521) pdf
HISTORY
- 12/17/04 House: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 053064260
- 12/17/04 House: Referred to Committee on Finance
- 01/12/05 House: Assigned to Finance sub-committee: #2
- 01/24/05 House: Reported from Finance with sub (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/05 House: Committee substitute printed 053100260-H1
- 01/25/05 House: Read first time
- 01/26/05 House: Read second time
- 01/26/05 House: Committee substitute agreed to 053100260-H1
- 01/26/05 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1638H1
- 01/27/05 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/05 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/05 House: Communicated to Senate
- 01/28/05 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/28/05 Senate: Referred to Committee on Finance
- 02/09/05 Senate: Reported from Finance (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/05 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/05 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/05 Senate: Read third time
- 02/11/05 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/05 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/05 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1638ER)
- 02/24/05 House: Enrolled
- 02/24/05 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/25/05 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/22/05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 521 (effective 7/1/05)
- 03/31/05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0521)