Tampon tax exemption clears Senate Commerce Committee
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| Sen. Kathleen Passidomo before approving her bill to exempt female sanitary products from the sales tax |
Members of the Senate Committee on Commerce and Tourism couldn’t resist hazing Sen. Kathleen Passidomo before approving her bill to exempt female sanitary products from the sales tax.
“I think this is Sen. Passidomo’s first bill” as a member of the committee, Sen. Jack Latvala said of his colleague, a Naples Republican elected to the Senate last year following service in the House. “What an interesting bill this is!”
He asked what SB 176 — her tampon tax exemption — would cost state government.
About $15 million annually, Passidomo said.
Latvala: “Would that be an annual figure or a monthly figure?”
Passidomo: “Let me look at my pad and see if I can calculate that.”
Latvala: “Does the committee attorney, can they offer an opinion as to whether there’s any conflicts of interest from any members of the committee voting on this? We can’t vote on things where we have a personal financial impact.”
Passidomo, cracking up laughing: “I can answer that for me. It wouldn’t affect me at all.”
“I believe we’ve exhausted those questions,” chairman Bill Montford said at that point.
The committee voted, 8-0, in favor of the bill.
SOURCE: FloridaPolitics.com
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