FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 123

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES RIDDLE (Sponsor), WYATT, DAY, LANT, RICHARDSON, DAVIS, WHITE, LICHTENEGGER, COOKSON, JONES (117), BARNES, KOENIG, KORMAN, SCHAD, DIECKHAUS, PHILLIPS, FREDERICK, KEENEY, LAIR, SCHATZ, McCAHERTY, LONG, HAMPTON, HIGDON, CURTMAN, GATSCHENBERGER, BROWN (116), PARKINSON, ELMER, POLLOCK, FAITH, JOHNSON, SMITH (150), HOUGHTON, FUHR, FISHER, REDMON, WELLS, FRANZ AND GOSEN (Co-sponsors).

0210L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To amend chapter 144, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to sales taxes on firearms and ammunition.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 144, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 144.064, to read as follows:

            144.064. No sales tax levied under this chapter on any firearms or ammunition shall be levied at a rate that is higher than the sales tax levied under this chapter or any other excise tax levied on any sporting goods or equipment or any hunting equipment.

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