Jax pension tax bill headed for Senate floor vote early next week

State Sen. Rob Bradley is one of 3

Jacksonville is watching Tallahassee for one thing this session more than anything else: SB 1652, the Discretionary Sales Surtax bill. The House version of the “pension tax” bill passed last week. Whither the Senate?

“The Senate bill will end up matching the House bill, and then the Senate will take up the House bill,” says Senator Rob Bradley, who has performed the proverbial “heavy lift” in guiding this bill from concept to the cusp of completion.

Bradley noted in a conversation with Florida Politics that he was “actively involved in negotiating the House bill so that the bill would be in a position to be taken up and passed by the Senate.”

There will be two hearings on the floor, relates Bradley. The first will be on Friday. And a floor vote awaits “early next week.”