BILL · 2025–26 SESSION
SB 5638: Hospital exec. excise tax
Funding health care access by imposing an excise tax on the annual compensation paid to certain highly compensated hospital employees.
Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
- IntroducedFeb 3, 2025
- Out of committeestopped here
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Rebecca Saldaña (D-37)
- Introduced
- February 3, 2025 in the Senate
- Last action
- January 12, 2026
- Companion bill
- HB 1560
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
AN ACT Relating to funding health care access by imposing an excise tax on the annual compensation paid to certain highly compensated hospital employees;
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Rebecca Saldaña (D-37)
2 co-sponsors (2 Democrats, 0 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.
History
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- First reading, referred to Ways & Means.
SB 5638 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
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- SB 5638 (2019–20) Distributed ledger tech.
- SB 5638 (2017–18) Cert of need/skilled nursing
- SB 5638 (2015–16) State need grant eligibility
- SB 5638 (2013–14) Bill & budget fiscal impacts
- SB 5638 (2011–12) Taxing district exemptions
- SB 5638 (2009–10) Fire protection districts