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made in this session to limit the kinds of legislation that can be introduced during the legislature’s “short” sessions, which take place on oddnumbered years for 30 days with the option to add up to 30 more.
The fast pace of the session helped to spell doom for a number of controversial measures among them a bill Callahan and many other legislators favored revamping the state's income tax structure.
The bill, sponsored by Del. Johnny Joannou (DPortsmouth). would have given every taxpayer a standard $4,500 personal exemption and taxed all income at a 4.75 percent rate. It passed the House before dying in the conservative Senate, where one of the most frequent arguments against it was the farreaching impact of a bill that had to be so hurriedly
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