Taxes (Senate)

Agenda: The committee begins compiling its first omnibus tax bill and considers several proposals. They include: SF 867 - granting local sales tax option for the city of Willmar (00:00:00); SF 53 - exempting sales tax for Lake Superior dock relocation (00:15:33); SF 1571 - exempting sales taxes on the sale of ready-to-eat meat and seafood when sold to another retailer (00:40:46); SF 1081 - expempting property taxes on homes contaminated with mold (00:48:27); SF 344 - allowing local fire departments to recoup their costs for putting out car fires (00:57:00); SF 1190 - exempting sales tax on construction material used for the conversion of a coal burning facility to a biomass producing facility (01:00:00); SF 1786 - clarifying that certain hybrid crops are an agricultural product for property assessment purposes (01:03:30); SF 1683 - exempting property taxes on elderly nursing facilities providing services to the majority of residents whose income is 60 percent or more below the median household income for that area (01:11:00); SF 1685 - providing tax incentives for high energ.y performance commercial buildings (01:15:40); SF 1659 - providing income tax credit for building rehabilitation expenditures (01:19:04)