"Florida Rep. seeks airport fuel tax break"

Thursday, December 7, 2006

Pensacola Rep. seeks airport tax break
By Paige St. John
The Pensacola (FL) News Journal


TALLAHASSEE -- Lawmakers already are filing bills to be heard in the 2007
legislative session that begins in March.

Rep. Dave Murzin, R-Pensacola, has filed a bill to give a tax break to
airport support services. It allows commercial aviation ground crews to get
a refund of the motor fuel taxes they pay for vehicles such as luggage
carts.

"It's a small tax, but it's something the airlines can use," Murzin said.

The legislation was carried last year by Rep. Nancy Detert, and passed the
House but failed to move through the Senate.

"It's a good idea that needs a second hearing," Murzin said.

Rep. Bob Allen, R-Merritt Island, is back with a bill that would require
gambling ships to discharge their sewage at port facilities, instead of
dumping it offshore.

The so-called Clean Oceans Act failed to make it to the House floor last
year.

House and Senate members in the past week have filed 100 bills for hearing.
Lawmakers will start to consider them as soon as the first week of January,
when the House holds its first committee meetings of the year.

So far, the Senate's 31 bills are all relief acts to pay court claims
against the state and local governments.

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