HB 1575 — Modifying the sales and use tax for cultural access programs by allowing the tax to be imposed by a councilmanic or commission authority and defining timelines and priorities for action.

What this bill does

Allows counties and cities the option of imposing a 0.1 percent cultural access program sales and use tax without voter approval. Allows a city to impose the tax after December 31, 2024, if it has not been imposed by the county. Prohibits a county and a city within the county from imposing the tax concurrently.

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Floor votes

• House — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 3, 2023
  51 yea · 47 nay
• Senate — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · April 11, 2023
  27 yea · 22 nay

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