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Thursday, February 26, 2026·3h 48m·▶ Watch / Listen

The House Finance Committee cleared a back-to-school sales tax holiday over a lone principled objection and pushed a contested rescue of the DMV's DRIVES fund past unanimous local-government opposition, while also advancing a marijuana tax measure and an elder-financial-exploitation bill on split votes.

Key Actions

·Back-to-School Sales Tax HolidayPassed

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Notable Quotes

Second, this policy is regressive. To benefit from a 48 hour tax holiday, a household must have liquidity, the cash on hand to buy everything at once during a specific weekend.

Anderson Lorimer · witnessThe CU economics student's opposition testimony crystallized the case that the holiday helps families with financial flexibility more than those living paycheck to paycheck.

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Votes

Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction
Yes (10)Max Brooks, Sean Camacho, Ken DeGraaf, Lorena Garcia, Ryan Gonzalez, Anthony Hartsook, Rebekah Stewart, Yara Zokaie, Brianna Titone, Steven Woodrow
No (1)Bob Marshall
Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction
Yes (7)Sean Camacho, Lorena Garcia, Ryan Gonzalez, Bob Marshall, Rebekah Stewart, Brianna Titone, Steven Woodrow
No (2)Max Brooks, Anthony Hartsook
Excused (2)Ken DeGraaf, Yara Zokaie
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (7)Sean Camacho, Lorena Garcia, Bob Marshall, Rebekah Stewart, Yara Zokaie, Brianna Titone, Steven Woodrow
No (4)Max Brooks, Ken DeGraaf, Ryan Gonzalez, Anthony Hartsook
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (8)Max Brooks, Sean Camacho, Ken DeGraaf, Ryan Gonzalez, Anthony Hartsook, Bob Marshall, Rebekah Stewart, Steven Woodrow
No (3)Lorena Garcia, Yara Zokaie, Brianna Titone
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TranscriptPreview
The committee will come to order. Ms. Culver, please call the roll. Representatives Brooks. Present. Camacho. Here. DeGraff. Excused. Garcia. Here. Gonzalez. Excused. Hartsuk. Excused. Marshall. Here. Stuart. Excused. So Kai? Here. Tatone. Here. Mr. Chair. Here. Good afternoon. Everyone made it by a minute. We do have a quorum. We're going to be going a little bit out of order from how things were printed in the House calendar and we might have to make adjustments on the fly today because we have several bill sponsors presenting in several different committees. But we are going to start with House Bill 1048, back to school sales tax holiday. Who'd like to kick us off? AML Winter thank you all for hearing this bill today. House Bill 26, 1048, the back to school sales tax holiday. I'm going to keep it short and sweet. I've been in a couple other states where they do this. We're talking about an affordability crisis that we see. And I think every dollar counts. I think every few pennies that a family can keep back are important. I know that we're in a constrained budget so we'll be bringing some amendments here in a little
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