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Kentucky Local Government Fees and Sales Taxes Amendment (2022)

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Kentucky Local Government Fees and Sales Taxes Amendment
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Election date
November 8, 2022
Topic
Taxes
Status
Not on the ballot
Type
Constitutional amendment		Origin
State legislature

The Kentucky Local Government Fees and Sales Taxes Amendment was not on the ballot in Kentucky as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.

The ballot measure would have allowed the state Legislature to authorize local governments to assess and collect fees. The ballot measure would also have required local sales taxes to be applied and administered in the same way as the state sales tax.[1]

Text of the measure

Full text

The full text of the constitutional amendment is available here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the Kentucky Constitution

In Kentucky, a 60% vote is required in both chambers of the Kentucky State Legislature to pass a constitutional amendment.

The constitutional amendment was introduced into the state Legislature as House Bill 475 (HB 475). On February 24, 2022, the House of Representatives voted 80 to 17 to pass HB 475. The constitutional amendment did not receive a third reading in the Senate before the legislature adjourned on April 14.[1]

Vote in the Kentucky House of Representatives
February 24, 2022
Requirement: Three-fifths (60 percent) vote of all members in each chamber
Number of yes votes required: 60  Approveda
YesNoNot voting
Total80172
Total percent80.81%17.17%2.02%
Democrat1770
Republican63102

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kentucky State Legislature, "House Bill 475," accessed March 3, 2022
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