TAX/SALES-USE, LOCAL-EXEM: Changes local sales and use tax exemptions for commercial fishermen and certain seafood processing facilities from optional to mandatory (EN DECREASE LF RV See Note)
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2023
Committee Review
May 2023
House Passage
Apr 2023
Senate Passage
May 2023
Signed into Law
Jun 2023
Introduced Mar 23, 2023
Signed Jun 6, 2023
Floor votes · Senate May 24, 2023 · House Apr 27, 2023
How they voted
32–0
Passed
Total votes 32
May 24, 2023
D
Democratic10
100% Yea
R
Republican22
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
20
Key actions
4
Committee
5
May 24, 2023
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 16, 2023
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 15, 2023
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 27, 2023
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 24, 2023
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (12-0).
lower
Apr 10, 2023
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
lower
Mar 23, 2023
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
lower
1 primary · 15 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Tim Kerner
RRepublican
Co
Bryan Fontenot
RRepublican
Co
Chad Brown
DDemocratic
Co
Clay Schexnayder
RRepublican
Co
Dodie Horton
RRepublican
Co
Jack McFarland
RRepublican
Co
Jonathan Goudeau I
RRepublican
Co
Kenny R. Cox
DDemocratic
Co
Kyle Green
DDemocratic
Co
Larry Bagley
RRepublican
Co
Laurie Schlegel
RRepublican
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