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Vice Chair Thomas Proposes Limits on Reallocating School Millage; Committee Hears First Hearing on HB129
Summary
Vice Chair Thomas told the House Ways and Means Committee that House Bill 129 would stop certain reallocations and the use of continuous emergency levies to increase school property tax revenue beyond the state’s 20-mill floor without explicit voter approval.
Vice Chair Thomas presented House Bill 129 in a first hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee, outlining changes intended to limit how school districts count levies toward the state’s guaranteed 20-mill property tax rate.
Thomas said the bill targets two practices the sponsor believes reduce transparency for taxpayers: (1) repeated use of emergency or substitute levies for general operating revenue that do not count toward the 20-mill floor, and (2) allocations of portions of inside millage (such as moving funds to permanent improvement accounts) that reduce the tax rate class counted toward the…
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