| HB 383 | LeBas | Requires health insurance issuers to pay local sales and use taxes on prescription drugs and pharmacist services under certain circumstances and provides penalties for violations. |
| Bill History: |
06-30-08 G Effective |
| HB 388 | Greene | Provides relative to component parts of immovable property. |
| Remarks: | Address the Willis Knighton Issue - Get with tax collectors re: impact. |
| Bill History: |
07-01-08 G Effective |
| HB 416 | Ellington | Provides relative to the payment of sales and use tax rebate requests. |
| Remarks: | Need to see the sorts of rebates referenced. |
| Bill History: |
06-20-08 H Enrolled |
| HB 440 | Lorusso | Provides for centralized collection of local sales and use taxes. |
| Remarks: | Speaker Tucker has duplicate - UTC web portal to go into effect Oct 1st |
| Bill History: |
03-19-08 H Referred to House Committee on House Ways and Means |
| HB 442 | Tucker | (Constitutional Amendment) Provides for centralized collection of local sales and use taxes. |
| Remarks: | Dupl of HB 440 Lorusso. Meeting with Speaker on 4/1 |
| Bill History: |
04-28-08 H Withdrawn |
| HB 453 | Tucker | Provides for centralized collection of local sales and use taxes. |
| Bill History: |
04-28-08 H Withdrawn |
| HB 490 | Katz | Provides relative to the effectiveness of sales and use taxes on the sale of admission tickets by Little Theater organizations. |
| Remarks: | Slight fiscal impact |
| Bill History: |
04-01-08 H Set on the House Orders |
| HB 607 | Lopinto | Increases the amount of time on the remittance of taxes by a motor vehicle dealer. |
| Bill History: |
06-18-08 S Enrolled |
| HB 610 | White | Provides for electronic bidding at the local level. |
| Remarks: | Unfunded Mandate |
| Bill History: |
01-01-09 G Effective |
| HB 624 | Henry | To increase the penalty for failure to pay sales and use taxes on certain purchases of off-road vehicles. |
| Remarks: | Should assit with sales tax collections |
| Bill History: |
06-09-08 H Meeting set for 1:00 p.m. John J. Hainkel Rm. Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs |
| HB 646 | Lorusso | (Constitutional Amendment) Provides for centralized collection of local sales and use taxes. |
| Remarks: | Speaker Tucker has duplicate bill |
| Bill History: |
03-20-08 H Referred to House Committee on House Ways and Means |
| HB 665 | Mills | Authorizes municipal governing authorities to create sales tax districts with the power to levy an additional 1% local sales and use tax. |
| Remarks: | Need 2 amendments: 1 shall not impact the aggregate sales tax for parish and district shall not extend beyond munis limits |
| Bill History: |
06-23-08 S Enrolled |
| HB 747 | Robideaux | Provides for restrictions on the use of private auditing firms and private legal counsel. |
| Remarks: | Smaller jurisdictions would be unable to audit for lack of funding. Possible amendment to require approval of LLA to ensure credible contract auditors. |
| Bill History: |
06-16-08 H Meeting set for 10:30 A.M. HAINKEL RM. Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs |
| HB 766 | Richardson | Provides relative to the settlement of erroneous tax payments. |
| Remarks: | Awards attorney fees to a taxpayer who wins a tax case, but gov't does not get attorney fees. |
| Bill History: |
06-20-08 S Enrolled |
| HB 802 | Smith, Jane | Provides relative to nonprofit organizations sales tax exemptions. |
| Bill History: |
04-01-08 H Set on the House Orders |
| SB 188 | Marionneaux | Re-creates the Tax Free Shopping Program set to terminate on 7/1/09. |
| Bill History: |
06-17-08 G Effective |
| SB 329 | Adley | Authorizes a taxpayer to file a rule to have the board of directors of the Louisiana Association of Tax Administrators determine whether a rule, regulation, policy, or interpretation of local sales and use tax law violates the Uniform Local Sales Tax. |
| Remarks: | LATA Bd rulin gshould be binding on both parites or none. |
| Bill History: |
06-19-08 S Enrolled |
| SB 520 | Morrish | Prohibits an action to collect a state motor vehicle tax or state tax applicable to movables on the purchase of manufactured homes used as residential housing until July 1, 2009. |
| Bill History: |
07-01-08 G Effective |
| SB 569 | Morrish | Creates the Manufactured Home Tax Fairness Fund for the deposit of an amount equal to the amount of tax, penalty, and interest paid since January 1, 2005 on the purchase of manufactured homes. |
| Remarks: | State obligation - applies to State sales tax only |
| Bill History: |
07-01-08 G Effective |
| SB 610 | Gautreaux, N. | To dedicate the avails from taxes on the sale of motor vehicles to transportation related matters based upon motor vehicle sales in each parish. |
| Remarks: | Requires that Transportation Fund dedicated revenues be expended on capacity projects in parishes based upon the proportion of parish contributions. Monitor only - ask whether the "parish contribution" is the parish of th epurchase or the parish of the registration of the vehicle. |
| Bill History: |
04-07-08 S Meeting set for 2:00 P.M. RM. E Senate Finance |
| SB 678 | Adley | Deposits motor vehicle and state sales tax paid by a person on a mobile or manufactured home provided by FEMA to Louisiana citizens and used or intended for use solely as residential housing into the FEMA Mobile Home Reimbursement Fund. |
| Bill History: |
06-22-08 S Enrolled |
| SB 720 | Donahue | 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) |
| Bill History: |
05-12-08 S Withdrawn |