Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session

AJR 79

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Relating to: requiring a supermajority for passage of tax increase legislation (first consideration).

Constitutional amendments — First consideration Franchise — Taxation Income tax Income tax — Credit Legislature — Procedure Legislature — Rules — Joint Referendum Sales tax

Introduced, stopped here
Passes Assembly, not reached
Passes Senate, not reached
Adopted, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This constitutional amendment, proposed to the 2013 legislature on first

consideration, prohibits either house of the legislature from passing a bill that

increases the rate of the state sales tax or that increases any of the rates of the income

tax or franchise tax unless the bill is approved by two-thirds of those members

present and voting. The proposed amendment, however, specifies that this

prohibition does not apply if the legislature passes a joint resolution requiring a

statewide advisory referendum on the question of whether the legislature should

authorize the tax increase provided in the bill and a majority of voters voting at the

referendum vote to approve the tax increase.

A proposed constitutional amendment requires adoption by two successive

legislatures, and ratification by the people, before it can become effective.

Votes

Assembly: Report adoption recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 6, Noes 4

Passed 6–4 Feb 6, 2014 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Read a third time and adopted, Ayes 60, Noes 39

Passed 60–39 Feb 11, 2014 official source full page

Aye · 60

Nay · 39

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Public Works, and Telecommunications, Ayes 4, Noes 3

Passed 4–3 Mar 6, 2014 official source full page