ALABAMA
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#HB62 Date: 12/21/02
Summary: to pass HB62 over governor's veto; raises taxes
on mobile communication
Pledgers voted for it: Senate: Dial, Armistead, Holley;
House: Laird, McClurkin, McKee, Pringle
ALASKA
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#CSHB225 Date: 5/14/02
Summary: increase in alcohol excise tax
Pledgers voted for it: House: Rokeberg, Dyson
ARIZONA
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#HCR2047/Scr1022 Date: 5/15/02
Summary: allows for a referendum to impose a tax increase
on tobacco products
Pledgers voted for it: Senate: Bennett, Cirillo, Gerard,
Smith, Peterson; House: Flake, Gray, Weiers, Knaperek
ARKANSAS
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#HB1440 Date:2/19/01
Summary: impose sales taxes on out-of-state transactions
Pledgers voted for it: House: Duggar, Milum
CALIFORNIA-none to report for house. Budget
with millions in tax increases fails in the house.
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#SB1261 Date: 5/30/02
Summary: State budget with tax increase proposed by Governor
(fails in house, but passes in senate)
Pledgers voted for it: Senate: Brulte
COLORADO-none to report
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CONNECTICUT
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#SB37 Date: 2/28/02
Summary: increase in cigarette tax
Pledgers voted for it: Governor: Rowland; Senate: Crisco,
Somma; House: Cocco
DELAWARE--none to report
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FLORIDA-None to report
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GEORGIA
Recent Tax Increase Bills: (no actual increase occurs)
#SR538 Date: 2/23/00
Summary: Support for taxing internet purchase, pending federal
government's approval
Pledgers voted for it: Senate: Kemp, Blitch, Cheeks, Brush.
HAWAII
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#HB2741 Date: 4/30/02
Summary: Increase in cigarette tax
Pledgers voted for it: Senate: Kawamoto; House: Thielen,
Pendleton
ILLINOIS
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#HB539 Date: 6/2/02
Summary: increase in cigarette tax
Pledgers voted for it: Governor Ryan; Senate: Dudycz, Mahar,
Lauzen, Phillip, Jones, Syverson, Dillard, Petka, Noland;
House: Capparelli, Wojcik, Biggins, Novak, Hannig, Curry,
Stephens, Bost
INDIANA-senate votes are not online (must purchase from
the state)
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#HB1004 Date: House: 2/4/02
Summary: general increases to taxes, spending, and revenue
Pledgers voted for it: House: Tincher, Bodiker, Frenz, Moses,
Bardon
IOWA
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#SF2321 Date: Senate: 4/8/02, House: 4/11/02
Summary: SSTP Act
Pledgers voted for it: House: Baudler, Boal, Boddicker,
Brauns, DeBoef, Dix, Dolecheck, Drake, Eddie, Finch, Garman,
Gipp, Hahn, Horbach, Hoversten, Huseman, Huser, Johnson,
Klemme, Larson, Manternach, Millage, Raecker, Rants, Rayhorns,
Shey, Sukup, Tyrrell, Van Engelenhoven, Van Fossen, Weidman,
Bradley; Senate: Boettger, Iverson, King, Lamberti, Maddox,
McKibben, Schuerer, Tinsman, Veenstra, Zieman
KANSAS
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#SB39 Date: 5/17/02
Summary: Largest tax increase in history ; increase in sales
and cigarette tax
Pledgers voted for it: House: Vickery, Compton, Tomlinson,
Cox,
Ballou, Dahl, Mason, Powers, Myers, Pottorf, Neufeld Senate:
Jackson
KENTUCKY-These records cost money to retrieve.
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#HB367 Date: 3/1/01, 3/7/01
Summary: SSTP Act
Pledgers voted for it: House; Senate
LOUISIANA
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#HB157 Date: 9/9/02
Summary: Increase in tobacco tax.
Pledgers voted for it:
Gov. Mike Foster, Senators: Dean, Ullo, Gautreaux, Smith,
Malone. House: Smith, JH, Doerge, McDonald, Walsworth, Hill,
Johns, Flavin, Durand, Frith, Faucheux, Diez, Futrell, Daniel,
Odinet.
MAINE-none to report
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MARYLAND
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#SB856 Date: 4/4/02 (senate), 4/5/02 (house)
Summary: increase on cigarette tax
Pledgers voted for it: Senators: Collins, Lawlah. House:
Boutin, Glassman
MASSACHUSETTS
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#HB5250 Date: Senate: 7/19/02, House: 7/23/02
Summary: 1.14 billion dollar tax plan vetoed by governor
and over-ridden by house and senate. Some tax increases
include cigarettes, tobacco, and capital gains.
Pledgers voted for it: Senate: none House: Atsalis, Nangle
MICHIGAN
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#HB5248 Date: senate: 7/9/02 (senate), 4/3/02 (house)
Summary: Increase in cigarette tax per pack & proportional
increases on other tobacco taxes
Pledgers voted for it: Senate: Dunaskiss, Steil, Gougeon,
McManus. House: Pappageorge, DeRossett, DeWeese, Jansen,
Ehardt, Kuipers, DeVuyst
MINNESOTA-none to report
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MISSISSIPPI-none to report
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MISSOURI
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#SB0915 Date: senate/house: 5/17/02
Summary: places a referendum on the ballot for motor fuel
tax and sales tax
Pledgers voted for it: Senate: Yeckel, Loudon, Kenney, Sims.
House: Bartelsmeyer, Berkstresser, Kelley, King, Marble,
Naeger
MONTANA
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#SB12 (failed) Date: 8/10/02
Summary: increase in taxes on lodging facilities & rental
car tax & cigarette tax.
Pledgers voted for it: none
NEBRASKA
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#LB1085 Date: 4/11/02
Summary: Increase in income tax, sales tax, cigarette tax,
tobacco products tax, and expanding of sales tax base.
Pledgers voted for it: Jensen (L-20)
NEVADA
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#AB455 Date: House: 4/25/01; Senate 5/28/01
Summary: NCSL Act (version of SSTP)
Pledgers voted for it: House: Berman, Goldwater, VonTobel,
Angle, Gustavson, Carpenter, Neighbors, Mortenson
NEW HAMPSHIRE-none to report
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NEW JERSEY
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#2505 Date: 6/27/02 (senate), 6/24/02 (house)
Summary: increase in cigarette tax
Pledgers voted for it: Senate: Bark, Turner; House: Greenwald,
Steele
NEW MEXICO-none to report
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NEW YORK-cigarette tax increase in S06-84, but no fiscal
note or even reference to the actual bill in any research.
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NORTH CAROLINA
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#HB1633 Date: 7/17/02
Summary: Accelerated local option sales tax
Pledgers voted for it: House: Baddour, Barefoot, Cole, Crawford,
Edwards, Redwine, Smith, Tucker, Sherrill#SB1292 Date: House
& Senate: 9/25/02
Summary: accelerated local option sales tax
Pledgers voted for it: House: Edwards, Smith, Tucker, Baddour,
Redwine, Cole, Barefoot, Sherrill, Wilson; Senate: Thomas,
Warren, Rand, Hoyle#SB144 Date: House: 7/23/01; Senate:
7/26/01
Summary: SSTP
Pledgers voted for it: House: Arnold, Baddour, Barefoot,
Bowie, Buchanan, Capps, Cole, Crawford J., Culp, Edwards,
Esposito, Howard, Johnson, McMahan, Mitchell, Morgan, Morris,
Preston, Rayfield, Redwine, Russell, Sherrill, Smith, Thompson,
Tucker, Wilson, C., Wilson, G.; Senate: Thomas, Warren,
Hartsell, Cunningham, Rand, Hoyle, Garwood, Moore
NORTH DAKOTA-none to report
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OHIO
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#SB 261 Date: 5/29/02 (house); 5/21/02 (senate)
Summary: Increase cigarette tax, imposes an income tax on
trusts; some cuts and savings are made, but it seems to
me that this bill increase more than it saves.
Pledgers voted for it: House: Callendar, Evans, Husted,
Peterson, Roman, Setzer, Trakas, White, Young; Senate: Carnes,
Gardner, Hottinger, Jacobson, Spada, White
*OKLAHOMA-1/2
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#SB589 Date: 5/17/01
Summary: State streamlined sales tax bill
Pledgers voted for it: House (only records available): Hutchison,
Miller, Kirby, Dank
OREGON
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#HB4079 Date: Senate 9/16/02; House 9/17/02
Summary: send income tax referendum to November ballot
Pledgers voted for it: House: Witt, Winters; Senate: Harper
PENNSYLVANIA
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#HB2044 Date: 6/29/02
Summary: Increase in tipping "fees"
Pledgers voted for it: House: Armstrong, Bastian, Leh, Lynch,
Reinard, Stairs, Stevenson, T., Strittmatter, Watson, Wright,
M.; Senate: Conti, Orie#HB1848 Date: 6/28/02
Summary: cigarette tax increase
Pledgers voted for it: House: Armstrong, Barrar, Bastian,
Lynch, Reinard, Stairs, Strittmatter, Watson, Wright, M.;
Senate: Conti, Orie
RHODE ISLAND
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#HB8207 Date: 5/29/02
Summary: increase parking surcharge tax in airport district
Pledgers voted for it: House: Shavers
SOUTH CAROLINA-none to report
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SOUTH DAKOTA
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#HB1001 Date: House: 1/25/02, Senate: 2/14/02
Summary: SSTP
Pledgers voted for it: House: Konold, Wick, Monroe, Pummel,
Napoli, McCoy; Senate: Madden
TENNESSEE*
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TEXAS-none to report
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UTAH
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#HB231 Date: 3/5/02
Summary: Cigarette tax increase
Pledgers voted for it: House: none; Senate: none
VERMONT*
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WASHINGTON
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#SHB 2969 Date: 3/14/02
Summary: Places a referendum on the ballot asking voters
to increase the gas tax.
Pledgers voted for it: Senate: Benton, Zarelli; House: Mielke,
VanLuven
WEST VIRGINIA*
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WISCONSIN-none to report
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WYOMING
Recent Tax Increase Bills:
#HB259 Date: House: 2/6/01; Senate: 2/22/01
Summary: SSTP
Pledgers voted for it: House: Tomassi, Illoway, McMurtrey*Taxes
may have been raised here, but research shows nothing definitive
or significant
