Creating an exemption to the water services excise tax

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedFebruary 18, 2019
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 19, 2019
3. ✕
   Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the Senate
5. Next: House committee
6. Next: Passes the House
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill creates an exemption to the water services excise tax. The bill exempts from the water services excise tax the sale or furnishing of water for compensation through a piped distribution system by a common interest community to a member of such community, who is a consumer or user of the water, if all of the following apply: the water was obtained from a water utility; a water services excise tax was imposed on the sales price from the sale or furnishing of water by a water utility to the common interest community, based upon readings of the master meter of the common interest community; and the price charged for the sale or furnishing of water by the common interest community is not more than the rate charged for consuming or using water from the water utility.

Full bill text¹

Senate subcommittee

Named February 19, 2019. On February 26, 2019 it recommended amendment and passage.

• Sen. Annette Sweeney REmail
• Sen. Jerry Behn R
• Sen. J. Smith

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