File Code: Taxes - Transportation
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 5  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
The Speaker (By Request - Administration)
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Transportation and State Investment Act
 
Increasing tobacco tax rates for cigarettes; imposing a State
admissions and amusement tax on net proceeds from bingo games and tip
jars; increasing the sales and use tax rate from 5% to 6%; designating
tax-free periods; requiring distribution of tax revenues to the
Transportation Trust Fund; increasing the maximum amount of specified
bonds; altering the definition of "total purchase price" of a motor
vehicle to allow a trade-in allowance in tax computation; establishing
the Chesapeake Bay 2010 Trust Fund; etc.
House Action
- 10/29
 - First Reading Ways and Means & Appropriations
 - 10/30
 - Hearing 10/31 at 9:00 a.m.
 - 11/9
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means
 - 11/2
 - Favorable with Amendments
 -       Special Order 11/10 (Delegate Hixson) Adopted
 - 11/3
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -       Floor Committee Amendment Adopted
 -       Floor Amendment (Delegate Shank) Rejected (48-86)
 -       Floor Committee Amendment Adopted
 -       Floor Amendment (Delegate Haddaway)
 -       Motion vote previous question (Delegate Minnick) Adopted
 -       Floor Amendment (Delegate Haddaway) Rejected (49-87)
 -       Floor Amendment (Delegate Miller) Rejected (40-93)
 -       Floor Amendment (Delegate O'Donnell)
 -       Special Order later today (Delegate O'Donnell) Adopted
 -       Floor Amendment (Delegate Smigiel) Rejected (51-84)
 -       Floor Amendment (Delegate Smigiel) Rejected (40-90)
 -       Floor Amendment (Delegate Eckardt) Rejected (35-95)
 -       Floor Amendment (Delegate O'Donnell) Withdrawn
 -       Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 11/4
 - Motion vote previous question (Delegate Minnick) Adopted
 -       Third Reading Passed (80-56)
 - 11/14
 - House Concur - Senate Amendments
 -       Third Reading Passed (81-52)
 -       Passed Enrolled
 
Senate Action
- 11/4
 - First Reading Budget and Taxation
 - 11/18
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation
 - 11/7
 - Favorable with Amendments
 -       Committee Amendment Adopted (27-18)
 -       Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -       Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 11/8
 - Motion limit debate (Senator Kasemeyer) Adopted (29-16)
 -       Third Reading Passed with Amendments (25-20)
 
Action after passage in House  and Senate
- 11/19
 - Approved by the Governor
 -      - Chapter 6
 
Sponsored by:
- Speaker, The
 - Administration
 
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Admissions and Amusement Tax
 - Advertising
 - Aircraft
 - Appropriations
 - Art, Music and Cultural Affairs -see also- Museums; Theaters
 - Baltimore City
 - Bingo
 - Bonds -see also- County & Baltimore City Bonds; State Bonds.
 - Budgets -see also- Capital Budgets
 - Chesapeake Bay
 - Cigarettes -see also- Smoking
 - Commerce and Business -see also- Dealers; Traders; etc
 - Comptroller
 - Conservation -see also- Soil Conservation
 - Construction
 - Contractors -see also- Heating & Cooling; Home Improvement
 - Corporations -see also- Municipal Corps; Public Corps & Inst
 - Counties -see also- Chartered Counties; Code Counties
 - Emergency Medical Services
 - Energy Matters -see also- Fuel; Power Plants; Solar Energy
 - Environmental Matters -see also- Conserv; Nat Resrce; Pollut
 - Equipment -see also- Motor Vehicle Equipment
 - Excise Tax
 - Exemptions
 - Fees -see also- Devt Fees and Taxes; Reimbursement Rates
 - Fish and Fishing -see also- Aquaculture; Gill Nets
 - Fuel -see also- Coal
 - Fuel Tax
 - Gaming -see also- Bingo; Lottery; Raffles
 - Heating and Cooling
 - Higher Education -see also- Comm Colleges; Med Schools; etc.
 - Hotels and Motels
 - Income Tax
 - Leases and Rent
 - License Plates
 - Motor Vehicles -see also- Aband Veh; Ambulances; Buses; etc.
 - Municipal Corporations -see also- Annap; Balt; Hager; OC
 - Natural Resources, Department of
 - Pollution -see also- Sediment Control
 - Reports
 - Revenue and Taxes -see also- Dev Fees &Taxes; specific tax
 - Rivers and Streams
 - Rules and Regulations
 - Salaries -see also- Overtime; Reimbursement Rates
 - Sales and Use Tax
 - Scholarships
 - Security Interests -see also- Liens; Mechanics` Liens
 - Solar Energy
 - State Bonds
 - State Police, Department of
 - Tax Credits -see also- Circuit Breaker
 - Titles
 - Tobacco
 - Tourism
 - Transportation, Department of
 - Transportation-see also- Aircraft; Airports; Boats; etc
 - Trucks
 - Vending Machines
 - Waterway Improvement Fund
 
Bill affects the following Statutes:
-   Natural Resources
 - (
 4-209 ,
 8-205 ,
 8-707 
)
 - Article - 24 Political Subdivisions - Miscellaneous Provisions
 - (
 9-1104 
)
 -   State Finance and Procurement
 - (
 7-313 
)
 -   Tax - General
 - (
 2-202 ,
 2-1104 ,
 2-1302.1 ,
 2-1302.2 ,
 2-1303 ,
 4-102 ,
 4-105 ,
 4-105 ,
 11-104 ,
 11-105 ,
 11-226 ,
 11-228 ,
 11-301 ,
 11-302 ,
 11-402 ,
 11-601 ,
 12-105 
)
 -   Transportation
 - (
 3-202 ,
 3-215 ,
 8-402 ,
 13-208 ,
 13-613 ,
 13-613 ,
 13-802 ,
 13-809 ,
 13-809 ,
 13-809 
)
 
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
 First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled, Chapter
 - Fiscal and Policy Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
 Available
 - Attorney General Letter (Displayed in PDF Format):
 Available 
 - Amendments (Displayed in PDF Format):
 House 
- Number: 103725/01     Offered on: November 10, 2007   at:
9:00 p.m.      Status: Rejected
 - Number: 163527/01     Offered on: November 10, 2007   at:
10:02 p.m.     Status: Rejected
 - Number: 185062/01     Offered on: November 10, 2007   at:
9:00 p.m.      Status: Adopted
 - Number: 515361/02     Offered on: November 10, 2007   at:
9:21 p.m.      Status: Adopted
 - Number: 583926/01     Offered on: November 10, 2007   at:
10:19 p.m.     Status: Rejected
 - Number: 593623/01     Offered on: November 10, 2007   at:
10:26 p.m.     Status: Rejected
 - Number: 623127/01     Offered on: November 10, 2007   at:
10:12 p.m.     Status: Rejected
 - Number: 853323/01     Offered on: November 10, 2007   at:
9:22 p.m.      Status: Rejected
 - Number: 905960/01     Offered on: November 10, 2007   at:
8:56 p.m.      Status: Adopted
 - Number: 923921/01     Offered on: November 10, 2007   at:
10:32 p.m.     Status: Withdrawn
 
Senate
- Number: 369333/01     Offered on: November 18, 2007   at:
11:27 p.m.     Status: Adopted
 
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
 House 
- November 3, 2007: Floor Amendment (Shank) {103725/1 Rejected  (48-86)
 - November 3, 2007: Floor Amendment (Haddaway) Rejected  (49-87)
 - November 3, 2007: Floor Amendment (Miller) {163527/1 Rejected  (40-93)
 - November 3, 2007: Floor Amendment (Smigiel) {623127/1 Rejected  (51-84)
 - November 3, 2007: Floor Amendment (Smigiel) {583926/1 Rejected  (40-90)
 - November 3, 2007: Floor Amendment (Eckardt) {593623/1 Rejected  (35-95)
 - November 4, 2007: Third Reading Passed  (80-56)
 - November 14, 2007: Third Reading Passed  (81-52)
 
Senate
- November 7, 2007: Committee Amendment {369333/1 Adopted  (27-18)
 - November 8, 2007: Motion limit debate (Kasemeyer) Adopted  (29-16)
 - November 8, 2007: Third Reading Passed  (25-20)