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2023 Session

Budget Amendments - SB800 (Member Request)

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Chief Patron: Suetterlein
Local Grocery Tax Repeal and Backfill (SB 850)

Item 266 #4s

Item 266 #4s

First Year - FY2023 Second Year - FY2024
Finance
Department of Accounts Transfer Payments FY2023 $0 FY2024 $263,300,000 GF

Language
Page 302, line 2, strike "$585,380,000" and insert "$848,680,000".

Page 303, after line 3, insert:

"F. Out of this appropriation, $263,300,000 the second year from the general fund is provided as the estimated Supplemental School Payment distributed pursuant to passage of Senate Bill 850 of the 2023 General Assembly.".



Explanation

(This amendment provides $263.3 million GF the second year to accompany Senate Bill 850, a bill that exempts food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products from the local one percent sales and use tax, beginning July 1, 2023. Senate Bill 850 proposes to provide localities with a state general fund appropriation to backfill the revenue loss, a Supplemental School Payment.)