2025 bills / H.B. 162
H.B. 162 Transportation Funding Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill changes how certain local option sales tax money for public safety can be spent, allowing it to pay for infrastructure and buildings but no longer for salaries, vehicles, or operations and maintenance. Certain counties that already budgeted or spent this money on law enforcement or public safety salaries could keep using it for those salaries for a set period of time.
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Official description
- amends provisions related to the allowed uses of certain local option sales and uses taxes for public safety purposes to:
- allow funds to be used for infrastructure and buildings
- prohibit the use of funds for salaries, vehicles, or operations and maintenance
- provides an exception for certain counties that have budgeted or spent revenue for salaries of law enforcement or public safety personnel to continue to use the funds for a certain period of time
- makes technical changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 162 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 162 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 9 yes, 0 no, 2 absentHouse Revenue and Taxation Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 10 yes, 0 no, 1 absentHouse Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 66 yes, 0 no, 9 absentFinal House vote · Feb 21, 2025Who voted how
- 1 yes, 6 no, 1 absentSenate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee: Senate vote, which failed · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how