State Sen. Carmen Amato (R-9th) is renewing his call to reinstate the annual back-to-school sales tax holiday, which offers a temporary exemption period for certain retail sales of computers, school supplies, instructional materials and sports or recreational equipment sold to individual purchasers for non-business use. The senator’s bill, S-3654, would restore the sales tax holiday to run annually from Aug. 1 through Sept. 30.

The tax was eliminated as part of last year’s state budget negotiations, and “reports estimated that the repeal forced…