BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Senators advanced a proposal Thursday to add a new monthly tax on cell phones to help provide services for the hearing impaired — but only after dropping the tax rate from 2 cents to 1.5 cents.

The Senate Finance Committee then backed the bill (House Bill 238) without objection, sending it to the full Senate for consideration. The House has approved the idea.

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