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Catherine Cortez Masto: “Eliminating the essential governmental function test, which is an arbitrary test that prevents tribes from using…”

On the recordMarch 7, 2023
Eliminating the essential governmental function test, which is an arbitrary test that prevents tribes from using tax-exempt bonds for the same types of activities that State and local governments use them for, it would allow us to use general tax-exempt bonds for convention facilities, for hotels, for other things, golf courses.
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Catherine Cortez Masto
Democratic · Nevada

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Cortez Masto advocates for repealing a restriction that limits tribes' access to tax-exempt bonds.

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