HLS 15RS-2892 ORIGINAL
2015 Regular Session
HOUSE STUDY REQUEST NO. 3
BY REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JOHNSON
TAX/SALES-USE, STATE: Requests the House Ways and Means Committee to study the
feasibility of establishing an incentive program for development of new tourism
infrastructure and assets in exchange for certain sales and use tax collections
1 A STUDY REQUEST
2To the House Committee on Ways and Means to study the feasibility of establishing an
3 incentive program for development of new tourism infrastructure and assets in
4 exchange for certain sales and use tax collections, and to report its findings to the
5 House of Representatives prior to the convening of the 2016 Regular Session.
6 WHEREAS, the House Ways and Means Committee, in hearings during the 2015
7Regular Session concerning tax expenditures, particularly House Bill No. 771 by
8Representative Mike Johnson, discussed and determined that it was appropriate and
9necessary given the predicted budget shortfalls for the next few fiscal years for the
10committee to conduct interim hearings to study whether approving measures to establish
11incentive programs for the development of new tourism infrastructure assets in exchange for
12certain sales and use tax collections.
13 THEREFORE, the House of Representatives of the Legislature of Louisiana requests
14the House Committee on Ways and Means to study the feasibility of establishing an
15incentive program for development of new tourism infrastructure and assets in exchange for
16certain sales and use tax collections and to report its findings to the House of Representatives
17prior to the convening of the 2016 Regular Session.
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HSR 3 Original 2015 Regular Session Mike Johnson
Requests the House Ways and Means Committee to study the feasibility of establishing an
incentive program for development of new tourism infrastructure and assets in exchange for
certain sales and use tax collections and to report its findings prior to the 2016 R.S.
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