A bill for an ordinance exempting diapers and incontinence products from the collection of sales and use tax in the City and County of Denver. Exempts certain products from sales tax. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 5-31-22.
Oh. All right. Well, we can certainly expect. No words, no big deal, because either way, you know, it's just comments, not a vote, but wanted to just make that make sure that that's clear. So, Bill, five, seven, seven is a bill for an ordinance exempting diapers, including incontinence products from sales tax in Denver. So just wanted to call this out because I have to put my glasses on because I can't see anything, because it went through committee on consent and we haven't really had an opportunity to kind of bring it up and talk about it yet. So I wanted to just kind of call attention to it. The state legislature passed a sales tax exemption on diapers and menstrual products this session, which is wonderful. It's up to each city, though, to decide whether to exempt these items from local sales tax as well or not. Denver already exempts medicinal products thanks to Councilman Clark's 2019 legislation. So this ordinance just adds diapers, like I mentioned, including adult incontinence products to the list of necessary items that are exempted from sales tax in Denver. And just wanted to point out, this ordinance is in alignment with our values as a council, and it has the effect of helping keep some hard earned cash in the pockets of many of our residents, including our young families and older residents. It's much needed given the unprecedented inflationary pressures that we're seeing right now. And the Budget Management Office estimates that it's got a fiscal note somewhere between 500,000 and $800,000 annually. So it isn't a huge amount of money. But I really hope that Denver's families and older adults who are using these products, of course, no one uses these products. But if there was someone using these products in our older adult category that, you know, we hope that this helps them keep some of that hard earned money in their pocket and they can put it towards things that have gotten more expensive in 2022. And I just wanted to thank all of my colleagues for allowing this to go through on consent because of all of your wholehearted support, and especially Councilmember Clark and one of his aides, Maggie Thompson, who whose personal experience actually brought this to our attention. So really excited. Thanks for your partnership on this, Councilman Clark. And it'll take effect October 1st of this year. Thanks so much. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Sawyer. And I appreciate the correction on the Resolution 577 and happy to support that. We're going to move on. Madame Secretary, would you please put the next item on our screens? Councilmember Black, would you please put resolution six, six, eight on the floor for adoption?