SB 659 - Current law taxes retail sales of food, as defined in current law, at a rate of one percent. This act provides that retail sales of food shall be exempt from state and local sales taxes. This provision is substantially similar to SB 57 (2025), HB 1418 (2024), HB 1464 (2024), HB 2174 (2024), SCS/SB 161 (2023), HB 260 (2023), HB 452 (2023), HB 591 (2023), HB 896 (2023), HCS#2/HB 1992 (2022), HB 1817 (2022), and HB 2530 (2022), and to a provision in HB 2815 (2024), HB 2887 (2024), SCS/HCS/HB 154 (2023), HB 377 (2023), HCS/HBs 876, 771, 676 & 551 (2023), HB 1136 (2023), HB 1779 (2022), and HB 2249 (2022).
JOSH NORBERG