2026 Regular Session
SB9
Sales and Use Tax - Tax-Free Day - Veterans' Day
Earlier-session bill · introduced 2025
Establishing, beginning in calendar year 2026, November 11 as a tax-free day each year during which an exemption from the sales and use tax is provided for sales to certain veterans if the taxable price of the item for sale is less than $2,000; authorizing the Comptroller, in the Comptroller's sole discretion, to suspend the tax-free day; and requiring an individual, in order to qualify for the exemption, to provide to the vendor evidence of eligibility for the exemption.
Legislative progress
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Recorded floor votes
1 roll call are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.
March 5, 2026 · Senate
Third Reading Passed
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
43 yea–0 nay · 4 absent
Committee referrals
March 6, 2026 · House
Ways and Means
January 14, 2026 · Senate
Budget and Taxation
Instrument history
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This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.
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House Hearing 3/24 at 1:00 p.m.
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House Referred Ways and Means
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Senate Third Reading Passed (43-0) View roll call
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Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
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Senate Floor Amendment {583024/1 (Senator Simonaire) Adopted
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Senate Favorable with Amendments {453720/1 Adopted
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Senate Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation
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Senate Hearing 1/21 at 10:00 a.m.
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Senate First Reading Budget and Taxation
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Senate Pre-filed