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SB 312                                                                                                                        
Senator Ellis moved and asked unanimous consent that SENATE                                                                     
BILL NO. 312 "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                                                               

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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 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" be moved to the bottom of                                                          
the calendar. Without objection, it was so ordered.