House set to approve tax exemption sunset referendum

Lost in the excitement of Friday's Senate budget debate was a House Ways & Means hearing at 9 a.m. on Saturday (scheduled on Friday night). At that hearing the House Ways and Means committee adopted several bills including HB 2762 to require all tax exemptions to sunset. Among the amendments adopted in committee was adding a referendum clause to the bill. If the bill is adopted by the House and the Senate, it would not be the first time voters were asked to automatically repeal tax exemptions . . . READ MORE