The House Appropriations Committee amended and then reported out HB 1838 (providing for the Veteran’s Commission). They also unanimously reported out HB 2030 (a highway naming bill) and SB 928 (providing for divestiture for certain groups with investments in companies doing business in Iran and Sudan. Check the Capitol Toolbox later today for the full story
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House Approp met this afternoon and considered an amendment to HB 325 that provides for the vendor sales discount, taxes cigars, reduces the cigarette tax, imposes an eight cent tax on natural gas severed at the well head and another eight cents per thousand cubic feet. The two chairmen engaged in a lively conversation and the GOP agreed there is room for negotiation on these taxes if the Dems agree to lower the spend number. The bill was held in committee pending negotiations. Several other bills were reported as committed without discussion. Look for the complete story in the Capitol Toolbox this afternoon. Posted by Kim | Tags: Budget, cigarette tax, marcellus shale, severance tax | Category: Committee Voting Meeting, House Appropriations | Comments are closed | Share:
The House Appropriations Committee met this evening to consider two bills. HB 325 was reported as amended along party line votes. The amended bill will add $333 million to the state’s coffers through an eight percent tax on the extraction of Marcellus Shale, an additional 30 cent tax on cigarettes, and a tax on other tobacco products excluding cigars. HB 1186 was unanimously reported as committed. Check the Capitol Toolbox shortly for the full write-up and fiscal notes for the legislation. Posted by jason | Tags: revenue | Category: Committee Voting Meeting, House Appropriations | Comments are closed | Share:
The House Appropriations Committee met this afternoon to consider a number of bills. HBs 123, 704, 1072, and 1280 were all reported as amended. HBs 575, 1498, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2189, 2212, 2231, 2342, 2357, 2429, 2493 and SBs 87, 1115, 1157 were reported as committed. Check the Capitol Toolbox for the full story. Posted by jason | Category: Committee Voting Meeting, House Appropriations | Comments are closed | Share:
The House Appropriations Committee reported out three bills this afternoon: HB 2303, HB 2424, and HB 2425. HB 2425 amends the Tax Reform Code with respect to the sales and use tax vendor discount, corporate net income tax combined reporting, tobacco products tax and severances tax. The legislation was reported as committed with Republican members voting in the negative; Minority Chairman Bill Adolph (R-Delaware) stated that “the news taxes “are going to be spent to balance out of control spending.” Check the PLS Capitol Toolbox later today for the full story. Posted by matt | Category: House Appropriations | Comments are closed | Share:
This afternoon the House Appropriations Committee voted by a 27-8 margin to report out HB 2235, legislation sponsored by Rep. Greg Vitali (D-Delaware) that would establishing a moratorium on the leasing of state forest lands for drilling purposes. Though the bill did receive some positive Republican votes, Minority Chairman Bill Adolph said they were based on fiscal impact alone, and warned there will be greater opposition on the House Floor, when members consider the substance of the legislation. The committee also reported nine other bills unanimously – look for the full story in the Committee News section of the Capitol Toolbox later on. Posted by mike | Category: Committee Voting Meeting, House Appropriations | Comments are closed | Share:
The House Appropriations Committee met to consider two bills. HB 325 and HB 1618 were both reported as committed. Check the Capitol Toolbox later for more. Posted by jason | Tags: Appropriations | Category: Committee Voting Meeting, House Appropriations | Comments are closed | Share:
The House Appropriations Committee met today to vote on the non-preferred budgetary bills. All of the non-preferreds were reported to the House Floor as committed. The full story will be available in the Capitol Toolbox shortly. Posted by jason | Tags: Appropriations, Budget | Category: Committee Voting Meeting, House Appropriations | Comments are closed | Share:
The House Appropriations Committee met to vote on a number of bills. HBs 689, 705, 740, and 1324 were reported as committed. SB 206 was also reported as committed. HB 816 was reported as amended. The hearing was highlighted by Chairman Dwight Evans (D-Philadelphia) calling a brief recess of the committee in order to get the answer to questions posed by Rep. Douglas Reichley (R-Lehigh) from the Department of Education regarding HB 689. The full details will be in the Capitol Toolbox. Posted by jason | Tags: Appropriations | Category: Committee Voting Meeting, House Appropriations | Comments are closed | Share:
This afternoon at an off the floor voting meeting, the House Appropriations Committee voted out the governor’s proposed budget and its associated spending bills. The budget bill (HB 2279) was amended and then reported along a party line vote, with Republicans in the negative. Chairman Dwight Evans (D-Philadelphia) indicated the bills will now be in line for March 22nd floor vote to move them out of the House and before the Senate. Check the Capitol Toolbox later for the full story Posted by mike | Tags: Budget | Category: Committee Voting Meeting, House Appropriations | Comments are closed | Share:
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