Bill > HB703

Introduced Session

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.

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Anne Ferrell Tata (R)*,  Jason Ballard (R),  Mike Cherry (R),  Mitchell Cornett (R),  William Davis (R),  Hyland Fowler (R),  Tom Garrett (R),  Timothy Griffin (R),  Karen Hamilton (R),  M. Keith Hodges (R),  Terry Kilgore (R),  James Leftwich (R),  Ellen McLaughlin (R),  Joseph McNamara (R),  James Morefield (R),  Israel O'Quinn (R),  Delores Oates (R),  Justin Pence (R),  Eric Phillips (R),  Hillary Pugh Kent (R),  Chris Runion (R),  Howard Wachsmann (R),  Wendell Walker (R),  Lee Ware (R),  Michael Webert (R),  Madison Whittle (R),  William Wiley (R),  Wren Williams (R),  Tony Wilt (R),  Thomas Wright (R),  Scott Wyatt (R),  Eric Zehr (R), 

Continued to next session in Finance (Voice Vote) (on 02/11/2026)

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