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2007 Special Session 1

SENATE BILL 2

CHAPTER NUMBER: 3

File Code: Taxes - Miscellaneous Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 2

Sponsored By:: The President (By Request - Administration)

Entitled:: Tax Reform Act of 2007

Altering the rates and rate brackets under the State individual income tax; applying income tax rates to nonresidents; expanding the sales and use tax to specified services; increasing the corporate income tax rate from 7% to 8.25%; imposing recordation and transfer taxes on the transfer of controlling interest in specified real property owning entities; etc.

History by Legislative and Calendar Date

Senate Action

10/29: First Reading Budget and Taxation
10/30: Hearing 10/31 at 1:00 p.m.
10/31: Hearing 11/1 at 10:00 a.m.
11/7: Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation
10/31: Favorable with Amendments
11/1: Favorable with Amendments; Committee Amendment (#1-2, 4, 7, 11, 13, 17, 18) Adopted; Committee Amendment (#3) Adopted (25-20); Committee Amendment (#5) Adopted (45-2); Committee Amendment (#6) Adopted (28-16); Committee Amendment (#8) Adopted (35-11); Committee Amendment (#9) Adopted; Committee Amendment (#10) Adopted (29-16); Committee Amendment (#12) Adopted (26-21); Committee Amendment (#14) Adopted (26-20); Committee Amendment (#15) Adopted; Committee Amendment (#16) Adopted (28-18); Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted; Floor Amendment (Senator Currie) Adopted; Floor Amendment (Senator Kelley) Rejected (23-24); Floor Amendment (Senator Haines) Adopted; Floor Amendment (Senator Mooney) Rejected (21-26); Floor Amendment (Senator Jacobs); Motion " Special Order until later today (Senator Kasemeyer) " Adopted; Floor Amendment (Senator Jacobs) Rejected (15-28); Floor Amendment (Senator Jacobs); Floor Amendment (Senator Jacobs) Adopted; Floor Amendment (Senator Jacobs) Rejected (20-26); Floor Amendment (Senator Jacobs) Rejected (18-29); Floor Amendment (Senator McFadden) Adopted (36-10); Floor Amendment (Senator McFadden) Rejected (10-35); Floor Amendment (Senator Colburn) Rejected (16-31); Floor Amendment (Senator Greenip) Rejected (17-29); Floor Amendment (Senator Pipkin) Adopted; Floor Amendment (Senator Pipkin) Withdrawn; Floor Amendment (Senator Pipkin) Rejected (13-32); Floor Amendment (Senator Zirkin) Adopted; Floor Committee Amendment (Budget and Taxation); Floor Committee Amendment (#1-2) Adopted (36-10); Floor Committee Amendment (#3) Adopted (30-17); Floor Committee Amendment (#4) Adopted (29-18); Floor Committee Amendment (#5) Adopted (47-0); Floor Amendment (Senator Frosh) Adopted (24-23); Floor Amendment (Senator Pipkin) Rejected (16-29); Floor Amendment (Senator Kasemeyer) Adopted (46-0); Second Reading Passed with Amendments
11/3: Motion limit debate (Senator Kasemeyer) Adopted (29-18); Third Reading Passed (24-23)
11/9: Senate Concur - House Amendments; Motion limit debate (Senator Kasemeyer) Rejected (28-16); Motion limit debate (Senator Kasemeyer) Rejected (28-16); Motion limit debate (Senator Kasemeyer) Adopted (29-15); Third Reading Passed (24-20); Passed Enrolled

House Action

11/2: First Reading Ways and Means & Appropriations
11/12: Hearing 11/14 at 1:00 p.m.
11/18: Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means
11/13: Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted; Floor Amendment (Delegate Haddaway); Motion vote previous question (Delegate Minnick) Adopted; Floor Amendment (Delegate Haddaway) Rejected (46-74); Floor Amendment (Delegate Stifler) Rejected; Second Reading Passed with Amendments; Motion Rules Suspended two readings same day (Delegate Barve) Adopted (113-20); Floor Amendment (Delegate Dumais) Withdrawn; Motion vote previous question (Delegate Minnick) Adopted; Third Reading Passed with Amendments (78-56)

Action after passage in Senate and House

11/19: Approved by the Governor; - Chapter 3

Bill indexed under the following Subjects:

Admissions and Amusement Tax

Aircraft

Appropriations

Assessments and Taxation, Department of

Cigarettes -see also- Smoking

Commerce and Business -see also- Dealers; Traders; etc

Committees and Commissions -see also- Political Committees

Comptroller

Conservation -see also- Soil Conservation

Corporations -see also- Municipal Corps; Public Corps & Inst

Crimes and Punishments -see also- Penalties; Sentences; etc.

Elderly Persons

Energy Matters -see also- Fuel; Power Plants; Solar Energy

Environmental Matters -see also- Conserv; Nat Resrce; Pollut

Excise Tax

Exemptions

Fish and Fishing -see also- Aquaculture; Gill Nets

Fuel Tax

Health -see also- Mental Health

Heating and Cooling

Higher Education -see also- Comm Colleges; Med Schools; etc.

Income Tax

Interest

Legislation -see also- Corrective Leg; Curative Leg

License Plates

Liens -see also- Mechanics` Liens

Massage

Motor Vehicles -see also- Aband Veh; Ambulances; Buses; etc.

Nonresidents -see also- Aliens

Penalties

Program Open Space

Property Tax

Public Debt -see also- County & Balt City Bonds; State Bonds

Real Property

Recordation

Reports

Revenue and Taxes -see also- Dev Fees &Taxes; specific tax

Rivers and Streams

Rules and Regulations

Sales and Use Tax

Solar Energy

State Bonds

State Police, Department of

State Universities and Colleges

Sunset

Tax Credits -see also- Circuit Breaker

Tobacco

Transfer Tax

Transportation-see also- Aircraft; Airports; Boats; etc

Tuition

Vending Machines

Video

Waterway Improvement Fund

Bill affects the following Statutes:

Business Occupations and Professions

( 10-313 )

Education

( 15-106.6 )

Tax - General

( 2-106 , 2-106 , 2-613.1 , 2-614 , 2-615 , 10-102.1 , 10-105 , 10-110 , 10-207 , 10-210.1 , 10-211 , 10-402 , 10-601 , 10-704 , 10-804 , 10-804.1 , 10-908 , 10-908 , 10-912 , 11-101 , 11-101 , 11-105 , 11-219 )

Tax - Property

( 12-110 , 12-117 , 13-103 , 13-209 )

Documents:

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): Senate Number: 113622/01 Offered on: November 8, 2007 at: 5:13 p.m. Status: Rejected Number: 143328/01 Offered on: November 8, 2007 at: 2:14 p.m. Status: Adopted Number: 189134/01 Offered on: November 8, 2007 at: 12:57 p.m. Status: Adopted Number: 233224/01 Offered on: November 8, 2007 at: 4:50 p.m. Status: Rejected Number: 253226/01 Offered on: November 8, 2007 at: 2:17 p.m. Status: Rejected Number: 333729/01 Offered on: November 8, 2007 at: 4:35 p.m. Status: Rejected Number: 373126/01 Offered on: November 8, 2007 at: 6:00 p.m. Status: Adopted Number: 383626/01 Offered on: November 8, 2007 at: 5:02 p.m. Status: Adopted Number: 423722/02 Offered on: November 8, 2007 at: 10:05 p.m. Status: Rejected Number: 453320/01 Offered on: November 8, 2007 at: 4:57 p.m. Status: Rejected Number: 503725/01 Offered on: November 8, 2007 at: 4:44 p.m. Status: Adopted Number: 583827/01 Offered on: November 8, 2007 at: 5:22 p.m. Status: Adopted Number: 683529/01 Offered on: November 8, 2007 at: 2:30 p.m. Status: Adopted Number: 683926/01 Offered on: November 8, 2007 at: 4:50 p.m. Status: Rejected Number: 713226/01 Offered on: November 8, 2007 at: 2:31 p.m. Status: Rejected Number: 723926/01 Offered on: November 8, 2007 at: 10:10 p.m. Status: Adopted Number: 803226/01 Offered on: November 8, 2007 at: 2:45 p.m. Status: Rejected Number: 833123/01 Offered on: November 8, 2007 at: 4:36 p.m. Status: Rejected Number: 873529/01 Offered on: November 8, 2007 at: 5:24 p.m. Status: Adopted Number: 953727/01 Offered on: November 8, 2007 at: 3:50 p.m. Status: Adopted Number: 973225/01 Offered on: November 8, 2007 at: 5:05 p.m. Status: Withdrawn House Number: 133523/01 Offered on: November 18, 2007 at: 10:36 p.m. Status: Withdrawn Number: 263225/01 Offered on: November 18, 2007 at: 9:56 p.m. Status: Rejected Number: 605260/01 Offered on: November 18, 2007 at: 9:32 p.m. Status: Adopted Number: 693029/01 Offered on: November 18, 2007 at: 10:20 p.m. Status: Rejected
Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
Senate
November 1, 2007: Committee Amendment (#3) Adopted (25-20)
November 1, 2007: Committee Amendment (#5) Adopted (45-2)
November 1, 2007: Committee Amendment (#6) Adopted (28-16)
November 1, 2007: Committee Amendment (#8) Adopted (35-11)
November 1, 2007: Committee Amendment (#10) Adopted (29-16)
November 1, 2007: Committee Amendment (#12) Adopted (26-21)
November 1, 2007: Committee Amendment (#14) Adopted (26-20)
November 1, 2007: Committee Amendment (#16) Adopted (28-18)
November 1, 2007: Floor Amendment (Kelley) {253226/1 Rejected (23-24)
November 1, 2007: Floor Amendment (Mooney) {713226/1 Rejected (21-26)
November 1, 2007: Floor Amendment (Jacobs) {803226/1 Rejected (15-28)
November 1, 2007: Floor Amendment (Jacobs) {333729/1 Rejected (20-26)
November 1, 2007: Floor Amendment (Jacobs) {833123/1 Rejected (18-29)
November 1, 2007: Floor Amendment (McFadden) {503725/1 Adopted (36-10)
November 1, 2007: Floor Amendment (McFadden) {683926/1 Rejected (10-35)
November 1, 2007: Floor Amendment (Colburn) {233224/1 Rejected (16-31)
November 1, 2007: Floor Amendment (Greenip) {453320/1 Rejected (17-29)
November 1, 2007: Floor Amendment (Pipkin) {113622/1 Rejected (13-32)
November 1, 2007: Floor Committee Amendment (#1-2) Adopted (36-10)
November 1, 2007: Floor Committee Amendment (#3) Adopted (30-17)
November 1, 2007: Floor Committee Amendment (#4) Adopted (29-18)
November 1, 2007: Floor Committee Amendment (#5) Adopted (47-0)
November 1, 2007: Floor Amendment (Frosh) {373126/1 Adopted (24-23)
November 1, 2007: Floor Amendment (Pipkin) {423722/2 Rejected (16-29)
November 1, 2007: Floor Amendment (Kasemeyer) {723926/1 Adopted (46-0)
November 3, 2007: Motion limit debate (Kasemeyer) Adopted (29-18)
November 3, 2007: Third Reading Passed (24-23)
November 9, 2007: Motion limit debate (Kasemeyer) Rejected (28-16)
November 9, 2007: Motion limit debate (Kasemeyer) Rejected (28-16)
November 9, 2007: Motion limit debate (Kasemeyer) Adopted (29-15)
November 9, 2007: Third Reading Passed (24-20)

House
November 13, 2007: Floor Amendment (Haddaway) Rejected (46-74)
November 13, 2007: Motion Rules Suspended two readings same day (Barve) Adopted (113-20)
November 13, 2007: Third Reading Passed (78-56)