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SB 9Session 2027SenateIn committee

RS & UT; food for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products, delayed effective date.

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Sales and use tax; food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Eliminates the remaining one percent local sales and use tax that is imposed on food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Under current law, no other sales and use tax is applied to such products. The bill requires an equivalent amount of revenue to be distributed to cities and counties on a monthly basis in compensation for the lost tax revenue. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027.

Latest development · Jul 21, 2026

Continued from last session

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Session
2027
Introduced
Nov 17, 2025
Latest passage
Date unavailable
TopicsSponsorsActionsRelated billsDiscussion

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Budget & Taxes

Document type

Bill

Sponsors

Primary sponsors are listed before cosponsors and other sponsoring entities.

Primary sponsorDavid R. Suetterlein
cosponsorBill DeSteph
cosponsorBryce E. Reeves
cosponsorChristie New Craig
cosponsorChristopher T. Head
cosponsorEmily M. Jordan
cosponsorGlen H. Sturtevant, Jr.
cosponsorJ.D. "Danny" Diggs
cosponsorLuther Cifers, III
cosponsorMark D. Obenshain
cosponsorMark J. Peake
cosponsorRichard H. Stuart
cosponsorRyan T. McDougle
cosponsorT. Travis Hackworth
cosponsorTammy Brankley Mulchi
cosponsorTara A. Durant
cosponsorTimmy French
cosponsorTodd E. Pillion
cosponsorWilliam M. Stanley, Jr.

Action timeline

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View full action timeline5 actions⌄
  1. Jul 21, 2026

    Continued from last session

    Senate
  2. Jan 20, 2026

    Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 5-N)

    Senate
  3. Jan 17, 2026

    Fiscal Impact statement From TAX (1/17/2026 10:37 am)

    Senate
  4. Nov 17, 2025

    Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations

    Referral CommitteeSenate
  5. Nov 17, 2025

    Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100497D

    FilingIntroductionSenate

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Source data last updated Jul 21, 2026.