Proposed Changes to Local Business Taxes
October 7, 2025
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Where This Stands
Currently Died in Appropriations. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Introduced.
Procedural history
31 actions- Feb 18, 2026SenateEnrolledReceived
- Feb 18, 2026SenateCommitteeReferred to Appropriations
- Feb 17, 2026SenateIn Messages
- Feb 17, 2026HouseFloorCS passed; YEAS 82, NAYS 26
- Feb 17, 2026HouseFloorRead 3rd time
- Feb 17, 2026HouseAdded to Third Reading Calendar
Show 25 earlier actions
- Feb 17, 2026HouseFloorRead 2nd time
- Feb 10, 2026HouseBill added to Special Order Calendar (2/17/2026)
- Feb 4, 2026HouseAdded to Second Reading Calendar
- Feb 4, 2026HouseIntroduced1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- Feb 4, 2026HouseBill referred to House Calendar
- Feb 3, 2026HouseIntroducedCS Filed
- Feb 3, 2026HouseLaid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- Feb 3, 2026HouseReported out of State Affairs Committee
- Feb 3, 2026HouseCommitteeFavorable with CS by State Affairs Committee
- Jan 30, 2026HousePCS added to State Affairs Committee agenda
- Jan 23, 2026HouseAdded to State Affairs Committee agenda
- Jan 20, 2026HouseNow in State Affairs Committee
- Jan 20, 2026HouseReported out of Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee
- Jan 20, 2026HouseCommitteeFavorable by Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee
- Jan 15, 2026HouseAdded to Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee agenda
- Jan 13, 2026HouseIntroduced1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- Dec 10, 2025HouseNow in Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee
- Dec 10, 2025HouseReported out of Ways & Means Committee
- Dec 10, 2025HouseCommitteeFavorable by Ways & Means Committee
- Dec 3, 2025HouseAdded to Ways & Means Committee agenda
- Oct 14, 2025HouseNow in Ways & Means Committee
- Oct 14, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to State Affairs Committee
- Oct 14, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee
- Oct 14, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to Ways & Means Committee
- Oct 7, 2025HouseIntroducedFiled
Version history
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View official text →The Frame
The bill would have fundamentally altered the legal framework for how local governments collect business taxes, potentially impacting municipal revenue streams and the regulatory requirements for various businesses, including towing services, health studios, and travel sellers.
Potentially affected actors named in the source documents. Mention is not a position.
Municipalities
Local governments would have had their authority to levy business taxes redefined and restricted by the repeal of Chapter 205.
Counties
Counties would have been permitted to continue specific additional business taxes for economic development if they were already in place by January 1, 2026.
Local Businesses
Businesses would have continued to be subject to local tax requirements, with specific industries maintaining state-level permit requirements for local tax issuance.
Last recorded activity October 7, 2025.
Introduced.
Summary
Key Facts
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Why It Matters
The bill would have fundamentally altered the legal framework for how local governments collect business taxes, potentially impacting municipal revenue streams and the regulatory requirements for various businesses, including towing services, health studios, and travel sellers.
News Coverage
Lobbying Activity
60 Plus Association
2026
“Signed a coalition letter opposing any efforts to raise the corporate tax rate above the 21% level set in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). Signed a coalition in support of the Family Business Legacy Act, H.R. 6329. This legislation creates parity in the tax code between the estate and gift taxes by allowing an estate tax deduction for contributions to 501(c)(4), (c)(5), and (c)(6) organizations. Signed a coalition letter urging opposition to proposals that would raise taxes on carried interest investment income.The letter is urging Congress to reject the misnamed Carried Interest Fairness Act, legislation recently reintroduced by Senators Tammy Baldwin, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and other progressive members of Congress. This legislation that would increase the tax rate on carried interest investment by 70%, from 23.8% to 40.8%. Signed a coalition letter in support of H.R.574 - ALIGN Act and highlight the 100% bonus depreciation provision's importance as the tax cut reauthorization efforts continue. Signed a coalition to support of repealing IRA's green new deal subsidies in reconciliation to pay for tax cuts. Signed a coalition letter regarding digital services taxes (DST) in an effort to stop Canadas imposition of a discriminatory digital services tax (DST) on U.S. firms and your efforts to include restrictions on the imposition of DSTs and other unfair digital policies in recently announced trade agreements-providing a model for future trade negotiations. Signed a coalition letter urging the President to index capital gains for inflation.”
PAT DOERR
on behalf of HOSPITALITY BUSINESS ASSOC OF CHICAGO
Voting Record
Passage, Third Reading
Total
203
Yes
144
No
43
Present
0
Not Voting
16
Abstain
0
How they voted (203)
Susan Plasencia
Republican · yes
Leonard Spencer
Democratic · absent
Peggy Gossett-Seidman
Republican · yes
Bruce Antone
Democratic · yes
Chip LaMarca
Republican · yes
Nathan Boyles
Republican · yes
Felicia Robinson
Democratic · no
Angie Nixon
- · no
Nan Cobb
Republican · yes
Rita Harris
Democratic · no
Lawrence McClure
Republican · yes
Bill Conerly
Republican · yes
Fiona McFarland
Republican · yes
Patt Maney
Republican · yes
Judson Sapp
Republican · yes
Anna Eskamani
Democratic · no
Griff Griffitts
Republican · yes
Jon Albert
Republican · yes
Toby Overdorf
Republican · yes
Lisa Dunkley
Democratic · no
Kim Kendall
Republican · yes
JOHN SNYDER
- · yes
Tiffany Esposito
Republican · yes
Jeff Holcomb
Republican · yes
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Discoveries
Patterns POLISCOPE noticed across the record. These are observations to investigate, not conclusions.
State-Level Preemption of Local Tax Authority
The bill demonstrates a clear legislative intent to consolidate and restrict local government authority to levy business taxes by repealing the broad Chapter 205 and replacing it with more specific, limited authorizations.
Connected Entities
Sources
openstates.org
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance85How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy40Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz20Current news / social attention level
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