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TARR — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Eric Tarr, R-Putnam, speaking earlier in the day Wednesday on the state Senate floor.
CHARLESTON — The leader of the West Virginia Senate Finance Committee tried one last time Wednesday to craft a plan for an income tax elimination Gov. Jim Justice and the House of Delegates could accept.
The Senate voted 18-16 in favor of House Bill 3300, the bill being used to phase-out the personal income tax in West Virginia, losing five Republican state senators.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Eric Tarr, R-Putnam, presented a strike-and-insert amendment to HB 3300 that wiped out the original committee proposal in favor of a plan that tried to get closer to a new proposal presented Monday night by Justice at a summit between House and Senate majority and minority leadership.