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SB 312                                                                                                                        
SENATE BILL NO. 312 BY THE SENATE FINANCE                                                                                       
COMMITTEE, entitled:                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
     "An Act providing for a reduction in the excise tax to                                                                     
     $34.50 for a passenger for each voyage on a commercial                                                                     
     passenger vessel; providing for a reduction in the state                                                                   
     excise tax imposed on a passenger on a commercial                                                                          
     passenger vessel by the amount of tax on a passenger                                                                       
     traveling on a commercial passenger vessel imposed by a                                                                    
     municipality that does not elect to receive an appropriation                                                               
     of a portion of the proceeds from the state tax; authorizing                                                               
     an appropriation from the proceeds from the excise tax                                                                     
     imposed on a passenger on a commercial passenger vessel                                                                    
     for state-owned infrastructure to properly provide for                                                                     
     commercial vessel or passenger visits; requiring a                                                                         
     municipality receiving funds appropriated from the excise                                                                  
     tax imposed on a passenger on a commercial passenger                                                                       
     vessel to use the funds to improve port and harbor facilities                                                              
     and other services and infrastructure to properly provide for                                                              
     commercial passenger vessel or passenger visits; limiting                                                                  
     the reduction for the excise tax imposed by a municipality                                                                 
     on a passenger on a commercial passenger vessel to $17.25                                                                  
     a passenger for each voyage; requiring the Department of                                                                   
     Commerce, Community, and Economic Development to                                                                           
     prepare and submit a report on the needs of communities to                                                                 
     safely and efficiently host passengers subject to the state                                                                
     tax imposed on a passenger on a commercial passenger                                                                       
     vessel, and to summarize the extent to which appropriations                                                                
     from the state tax have been used to defray the costs of                                                                   
     meeting those needs; eliminating the authority to                                                                          
     appropriate funds received from the excise tax imposed on                                                                  

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     a passenger on a commercial passenger vessel to an area of                                                                 
     the state that is not one of the first five ports of call in the                                                           
     state for a commercial passenger vessel carrying a                                                                         
     passenger subject to the state excise tax imposed on a                                                                     
     passenger of that vessel; and providing for an effective                                                                   
     date."                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
was read the first time and referred to the Finance Committee.