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Latest Action: 05/06/2008 - Involuntarily deferred in committee. Bill Text Provides for an increase in the amount of the homestead exemption from seizure and sale
Latest Action: 07/01/2008 - Effective date: August 15, 2008. Bill Text Authorizes sheriff's sales at certain courthouse annexes
Latest Action: 04/29/2008 - Involuntarily deferred in committee. Bill Text Increases the state bankruptcy exemption on homes
Latest Action: 03/24/2008 - Effective date 3/24/2008. Bill Text Defines as a "manufacturer" for the manufacturing machinery and equipment sales tax exclusion persons within NAISC code information Sector 51 or the manufacturing Sectors 511-511110 if they are required to register with the Department of Labor and are assigned such sector numbers. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)
Latest Action: 03/24/2008 - Effective date 7/1/2008. Bill Text Accelerates the phase-out of state sales taxes on manufacturing machinery and equipment by one year, making the purchase or lease of such machinery and equipment beginning 7/1/09 and thereafter tax free. (7/1/08) (EN -$4,000,000 GF RV See Note)
Latest Action: 03/12/2008 - Read by title. Returned to the calendar subject to call Bill Text Removes the "permanent penny" on purchases of utilities by businesses. (7/1/08) (EG -$68,000,000 GF RV See Note)
Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Rules suspended; introduced in the Senate. Rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. Bill Text Removes the "permanent penny" on purchases of utilities by all businesses and removes all of the tax on electric power or natural gas for the period 7/1/08 through 6/30/09 for any business whose total purchases of such utilities for the calendar year 2007 totaled $10,000 or less, unless the purchases of such utilities exceed $11,000 during the 7/1/08-6/30/09 period. (7/1/08)
Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Rules suspended; introduced in the Senate. Rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. Bill Text Includes non-depreciable items used in agriculture and forestry and certain buildings and structural components located on farms in the manufacturing machinery and equipment exclusion. (7/1/08) (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)
Latest Action: 04/25/2005 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. Bill Text Provides a limitation on the use of certain motor vehicles which are exempt from seizure
Latest Action: 06/29/2005 - Effective date 8/15/05. Bill Text Provides for notice of seizure to occupants of seized property
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Latest Action: 05/12/2008 - Withdrawn from the files of the Senate. Bill Text Repeals the state sales tax levied at the rate of ninety-seven one hundredths of one percent except for the tax levied on hotel and motel rooms which is dedicated to the parishes. (7/1/08) (OR -$773,500,000 GF RV See Note)
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Introduced in the Senate, rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. Bill Text Redistributes certain state sales taxes collected on hotel occupancy in Rapides Parish. (gov sig) (OR SEE FISC NOTE SD RV)
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Introduced in the Senate, rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the committee on Judiciary B. Bill Text Provides relative to the direct shipments of wine. (gov sig)
Latest Action: 07/06/2008 - Effective date 7/6/08. Bill Text Provides for proceedings, including an arbitration proceedings, to determine whether a taxpayer or a tax collector is asserting an interpretation of a rule, regulation, policy, or interpretation of sales tax law, or ordinance which violates the requirement in the Uniform Local Sales Tax Code. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 07/08/2008 - Effective date: August 15, 2008. Bill Text Provides for the prescriptive period and method of cancellation of a notice of seizure
Latest Action: 06/17/2008 - Effective date 6/17/08. Bill Text Recreates the Tax Free Shopping (Refund) Program set to terminate on 7/1/09. (gov sig) (EN -$872,000 GF RV See Note)
Latest Action: 05/13/2008 - Read by title. Returned to the calendar subject to call Bill Text Provides for an increase in the amount of the homestead exemption from seizure and sale and a special waiver of homestead exemption in certain circumstances. (gov sig)
Latest Action: 05/04/2005 - Rules suspended; introduced in the Senate. Rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. Bill Text Authorizes job training institutions for the disadvantaged and disabled to claim a state sales tax refund equal to 50% of tax collected during a calendar year on the sale of donated goods, not to exceed $1 million. (7/1/05)
Latest Action: 05/04/2005 - Introduced in the Senate, rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. Bill Text Provides for a state sales and use tax limitation on the sales price and cost price of natural gas and to phase-in the restoration of the sales tax exemption for natural gas. (OR -$10,100,000 GF RV See Note)
Latest Action: 05/04/2005 - Introduced in the Senate, rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. Bill Text Provides for the phase-in restoration of the sales tax exemption for natural gas and electricity. (7/1/05) (OR -$48,000,000 GF RV See Note)
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