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CS/CS/HB 3249: Tax Exemptions/Steam & Electricity

GENERAL BILL by Finance & Taxation ; Business Development & International Trade ; Fasano ; Burroughs ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Murman ; Brown ; Culp

Tax Exemptions/Steam & Electricity; (THIS BILL COMBINES H3249,3305) revises activities that constitute manufacturing function for purposes of sales tax exemption on certain uses of electricity; exempts sale of steam energy used in manufacturing; provides threshold for electricity use; provides presumption re proportion of nonexempt use for electricity use that falls below threshold; deletes requirement that electricity be separately metered, etc. Amends 212.08.

Effective Date: 07/01/1998
Last Action: 5/30/1998 - Became Law without Governor's Signature; Chapter No. 98-318
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Bill History

Date Chamber Action
12/4/1997 House • Prefiled
1/16/1998 House • Referred to Business Development & International Trade (EIC); Finance & Taxation (FRC); General Government Appropriations
2/26/1998 House • On Committee agenda-- Business Development & International Trade (EIC), 03/04/98, 1:00 pm, 214C
3/3/1998 House • Introduced, referred to Business Development & International Trade (EIC); Finance & Taxation (FRC); General Government Appropriations -HJ 00022; On Committee agenda-- Business Development & International Trade (EIC), 03/04/98, 1:00 pm, 214C
3/4/1998 House • CS combines this bill with 3305; Comm. Action: Unanimously CS by Business Development & International Trade (EIC) -HJ 00245
3/17/1998 House • CS read first time on 03/17/98 -HJ 00243
3/16/1998 House • Now in Finance & Taxation (FRC) -HJ 00245; On Committee agenda-- Finance & Taxation (FRC), 03/18/98, 10:15 am, Morris Hall
3/18/1998 House • Comm. Action: Unanimously CS/CS by Finance & Taxation (FRC) -HJ 00436
4/1/1998 House • CS read first time on 04/01/98 -HJ 00433; Now in General Government Appropriations -HJ 00436
4/20/1998 House • On Committee agenda-- General Government Appropriations, 04/21/98, 10:15 am, 214C
4/21/1998 House • Comm. Action:-Unanimously Favorable by General Government Appropriations -HJ 00998
4/22/1998 House • Pending Consent Calendar -HJ 00998
4/24/1998 House • Placed on Consent Calendar; Read second time -HJ 01310
4/28/1998 House • Read third time -HJ 01468; CS passed; YEAS 116 NAYS 2 -HJ 01468
4/28/1998 Senate • In Messages
4/29/1998 Senate • Received, referred to Ways and Means -SJ 01223; Immediately withdrawn from Ways and Means -SJ 01108; Substituted for CS/SB 338 -SJ 01108; Read second and third times -SJ 01108; CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 -SJ 01108
4/29/1998 House • Ordered enrolled -HJ 01710
5/14/1998 • Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
5/30/1998 • Became Law without Governor's Signature; Chapter No. 98-318