Senate, Assembly approve transpo extraordinary session bill
The state Senate approved the first of three extraordinary session bills Tuesday evening after pulling a provision that Dems warned would prevent local governments from using their employees to do some road work if the project were funded with state money. The bill also includes provisions that would make explicit in state law that new revenue from online sales will go to income tax reductions and to federalize state tax law on pass-through entities. There was no debate on the bill in the Senate, which was approved 18-15 with all Republicans in favor and all Dems opposed. Only Sen. Jon