Despite a warning from state finance officials that the proposal is unconstitutional, Sen. Jonathan Dismang won approval on a revote today of his proposal to give a $5 million-a-year tax break to the fracking industry by exempting materials injected in wells from the sales tax.
The special language subcommittee of the Joint Budget Committee is where the smelliest blood sausage of the legislature gets made. Today, Sen. Jonathan Dismang used it to attempt to insert a tax break for fracking sand into the law, outside of the usual process of voting it through both houses of the legislature.