HB703
RS & UT; food for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products, delayed effective date.
Status:
In House
Latest Action:
Feb. 5, 2026
House: Assigned HFIN sub: Subcommittee #3
Chief Patron:
Anne Ferrell Tata (R)
Session:
2026 Regular Session
Summary
As Introduced. 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 ... (More) 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. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/13/2026 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26103660D
- 01/13/2026 - House: Referred to Committee on Finance
- 01/23/2026 - House: Fiscal Impact statement From TAX (1/23/2026 2:04 pm)
- 01/30/2026 - House: Placed on Finance Agenda
- 02/05/2026 - House: Assigned HFIN sub: Subcommittee #3
