Senate Bill 76

An Act providing for tax levies and information related to taxes; authorizing the imposition of a personal income tax or an earned income tax by a school district subject to voter approval; providing for imposition of and exclusions from a sales and use tax for the stabilization of education funding, for increase to the personal income tax, for certain licenses, for hotel occupancy tax, for procedure and administration of the tax, for expiration of authority to issue certain debt and for reporting by local government units of debt outstanding; establishing the Education Stabilization Fund; providing for disbursements from the Education Stabilization Fund and for senior citizen property tax rent rebate assistance; and making repeals.

Prime Sponsor: Senator ARGALL

Last Action: (Remarks see Senate Journal Page 939), Sept. 19, 2017 [Senate]

Memo: Property Tax Independence Act

INTRODUCED BY ARGALL, FOLMER, SCHWANK, YUDICHAK, SCAVELLO, WAGNER, BOSCOLA, DINNIMAN, AUMENT, WHITE, ALLOWAY, BAKER, DiSANTO, RAFFERTY, MENSCH, STEFANO, BREWSTER, BROWNE, MARTIN AND EICHELBERGER

Provides for the complete elimination of the school property tax replace the funding through a dollar for dollar replacement through an increase in the Personal Income Tax (PIT) and an increase and expansion of the Sales and Use Tax.

PAPRA supports this legislation

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