Update: The Senate bill, SB 8xxx, concerning the RV’s, aircraft, and boats use tax, did come up as "promised" and was defeated on the Assembly floor again, this time in it’s Senate iteration. It received less "aye" votes than last week, 47, where it had 49 before.
The Assembly today [Friday, Feb 15] passed 6 bills that in some way addressed the mid-year budget shortfall under the emergency declaration by the Guv. Disappointingly, much of it was borrowing or putting off making payments, but there was also contained in the bills some reduced mid-budget year spending. It is a bit of progress towards our huge challenge budget-wise the rest of the year. All the bills passed with very strong bipartisan support, all of them receiving at least 70 votes if my memory serves.
What did not happen was the proposal to affect owners of aircraft, RV’s and boats with a plan to expand the time from 90 days to one year that the vessel would have to remain out of state to not be taxed as a new vessel or other technical reasons, etc. Some look at it as closing a loophole, others as a tax increase. It could only muster 49 votes and did not pass the 2/3’s [54] needed. The same Senate version of the bill did pass in the Senate and I reckon we will probably see it again next week on our side. Yee haw.