Agenda - Ways and Means

House Committee on Ways and Means
April 28, 2025 9:00 a.m. Room 6
Scheduled

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CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
INSTRUMENTS TO BE HEARD
	HB129	ECHOLS	TAX CREDITS - Establishes a corporate income tax credit for certain broker-dealer financial businesses (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)
	HB186	DEWITT	TAX CREDITS - Authorizes a tax credit for certain employers of La. National Guard members and military reservists (OR -$5,000,000 GF RV See Note)
	HB211	MANDIE LANDRY	TAX CREDITS - Modifies the definition of "eligible transaction" for purposes of the firearm safety device purchase tax credit (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)
	HB230	WALTERS	TAX CREDITS - Establishes an income tax credit for motor vehicle manufacturers and motor vehicle manufacturing suppliers (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)
	HB233	ECHOLS	TAX CREDITS - Establishes an income tax credit for certain pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturers (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)
	HB328	FIRMENT	TAX CREDITS - Establishes a tax credit for the installation of dashboard cameras and telematics systems in certain commercial vehicles (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)
	HB330	JORDAN	TAX CREDITS - Establishes an income tax credit for annual homeowners' insurance premiums paid in excess of a certain amount (OR -$250,000,000 GF RV See Note)
	HB331	JORDAN	TAX CREDITS - Establishes an income tax credit for certain amount of annual auto insurance premiums paid by a taxpayer (OR GF RV See Note)
	HB383	BRASS	TAX CREDITS - Postpones the termination of a tax credit for C-corporations for local inventory taxes paid but reduces the amount of the credit for those taxpayers
	HB389	JACKSON	TAX CREDITS - Extends the duration of the La. Youth Jobs Tax Credit program and provides relative to eligibility factors associated with the program
	HB472	EMERSON	FUNDS/FUNDING - (Constitutional Amendment) Revises Article VII of the Constitution of La. (OR -$139,000,000 GF RV See Note)
	HB473	EMERSON	FUNDS/FUNDING - (Constitutional Amendment) Provides relative to the application of state monies to the unfunded accrued liability of the Teachers' Retirement System of La. (OR DECREASE SD RV See Note)
	HB475	FIRMENT	TAX CREDITS - Increases the maximum amount of insurance premium tax credits for retaliatory taxes paid by certain domestic insurers that may be claimed in a fiscal year and extends the sunset date of the credit (OR -$16,000,000 GF RV See Note)
	HB477	FREIBERG	TAX CREDITS - Authorizes university laboratory schools to participate in the student tuition organization tax credit program (OR SEE FISC NOTE SG RV)
	HB484	ZERINGUE	TAX CREDITS - Provides for eligibility requirements for students participating in the student tuition organization tax credit program (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF RV)
	HB491	CHARLES OWEN	TAX CREDITS - Establishes a tax credit for costs of developing carbon sequestration wells where carbon sequestration is subsequently prohibited by local ordinance (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
	HB533	CARVER	TAX CREDITS - Establishes the Work-Based Learning Tax Credit for employment of apprentices, interns, and youth workers
	HB594	CHANCE HENRY	TAX/INSURANCE PREMIUM - Establishes a flat rate of insurance premium tax and repeals certain insurance premium tax credits and exemptions (OR -$109,000,000 GF RV See Note)
	HB598	ECHOLS	TAX CREDITS - Authorizes income tax credits for businesses within certain manufacturing industries (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)
	HB667	EMERSON	TAX/INCOME TAX - Authorizes an income tax deduction for taxpayers sixty-five years of age and older (OR -$73,700,000 GF RV See Note)
OTHER BUSINESS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ADJOURNMENT

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