RS & UT; food for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products, delayed effective date.
Summary
Sales and use tax; food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Eliminates the remaining one percent local sales and use tax that is imposed on food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Under current law, no other sales and use tax is applied to such products. The bill requires an equivalent amount of revenue to be distributed to cities and counties on a monthly basis in compensation for the lost tax revenue. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2026
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 13, 2026
Last action Feb 11, 2026
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
6
Key actions
1
Committee
3
Feb 9, 2026
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends continuing to (Voice Vote)
lower
Feb 5, 2026
Committee
Assigned HFIN sub: Subcommittee #3
lower
Jan 13, 2026
Committee
Referred to Committee on Finance
lower
1 primary · 30 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Anne Ferrell Tata
RRepublican
Co
Bill Wiley
RRepublican
Co
Buddy Fowler
RRepublican
Co
Chris Runion
RRepublican
Co
Delores Oates
RRepublican
Co
Eric Phillips
RRepublican
Co
Eric Zehr
RRepublican
Co
Hillary Pugh Kent
RRepublican
Co
Israel O'Quinn
RRepublican
Co
Jason Ballard
RRepublican
Co
Jay Leftwich
RRepublican
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