FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
                        SECOND SESSION, 1998
  
  
                                                February 17, 1998
  
  
  Mr. Speaker:
  
       Your APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE COMMITTEE, to whom
  has been referred
  
                  HOUSE BILL 86, as amended
                               
  has had it under consideration and reports same with
  recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:
  
       1.  Strike House Taxation and Revenue Committee Amendment 12.
  
      2.  On page 4, line 8, strike the quotation marks.
  
      3.  On page 4, between lines 8 and 9, insert the following new
  subsection:
  
          "G.  As used in this section:
  
               (1)  "maximum amount" means for fiscal year 1999,
  thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars ($33,500); for fiscal year
  2000, thirty-seven thousand dollars ($37,000); and for fiscal year
  2001 and each fiscal year thereafter, forty-one thousand dollars
  ($41,000); and
  
               (2)  "minimum amount" means for fiscal year 1999, twenty
  thousand dollars ($20,000); for fiscal year 2000, twenty-five
  thousand dollars ($25,000); and for fiscal year 2001 and each fiscal
  year thereafter, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars
  ($28,500)."".
  
  
                           Respectfully submitted,
  
  
  
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                                                    Max Coll, Chairman
  
  
  Adopted <u>                       </u>     Not Adopted <u>                         </u>
          (Chief Clerk)                                       (Chief Clerk)
  
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  The roll call vote was <u> 18 </u> For <u> 0 </u> Against
  Yes:         18
               Excused:     None
          Absent: None
  
  
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