TAX/SEVERANCE TAX: Reduces the severance tax rate for oil over a certain period of time, clarifies the severance tax rate for oil produced from certain incapable wells, and authorizes the reduction of the severance tax rate on natural gas (RE DECREASE GF RV See Note)
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2020
Committee Review
May 2020
House Passage
May 2020
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Feb 28, 2020
Last action May 25, 2020
Floor votes · House May 22, 2020
How they voted
55–19
Passed · 5 other
Total votes 79
May 22, 2020
D
Democratic26
69% Nay
I
Independent1
100% Yea
R
Republican52
96% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
12
Key actions
1
Committee
4
Amendments
2
May 25, 2020
Committee
Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.
upper
May 22, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 72, nays 25. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 18, 2020
Introduced
Reported with amendments (19-0).
lower
May 15, 2020
Committee
Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
May 7, 2020
Introduced
Reported with amendments (14-3).
lower
Mar 9, 2020
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
lower
Feb 28, 2020
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
lower
0 primary · 15 co-sponsors
Sponsors
No sponsor information available.
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