Yeoman v. Com., Health Policy Bd.

I must disagree with the plurality opinion’s conclusion that HB 250, which created the health provider tax, was not a revenue raising measure within the contemplation of section 47 of our Constitution. However, I agree that it would be the amendments which were introduced in the Senate, not the tax, which would be thus rendered invalid. See Farris v. Shoppers Village Liquors, Inc., Ky., 669 S.W.2d 213 (1984) in which a Senate amendment unrelated to the revenue raising measure was declared invalid. Appellants are not attacking any specific provision traceable to a Senate amendment to HB 250,…