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House panel advances bill letting local governments offer property tax breaks to spur cellular coverage
Summary
The Colorado House Finance Committee voted unanimously to send House Bill 10 80, as amended, to the committee of the whole. Sponsors said the bill empowers local governments to offer targeted property tax relief to communications providers in underserved areas, and a floor amendment was adopted to remove fiscal impact.
Representative Lauren Lukens, sponsor of House Bill 10 80, told the House Finance Committee the bill would give local governments another tool to encourage cell-phone carriers to extend service into underserved and unserved parts of the state.
The measure, as amended by adoption of amendment L005, allows local governments to offer property-tax relief to communication-service providers in designated underserved areas and clarifies the local relief language while removing a sales-tax description that had appeared…
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