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Sponsor seeks property tax exemptions to encourage home and business energy resilience investments
Summary
Representative David Gomberg asked the House Climate, Energy and Environment Committee to forward House Bill 3,823 to Revenue for work on amendments that would exempt certain residential and business equipment used to generate or store energy from property tax assessments.
Representative David Gomberg, sponsor of House Bill 3,823, told the House Climate, Energy and Environment Committee on March 20 that the bill aims to remove tax disincentives for investments in home and business energy resilience, such as whole-house generators, solar arrays and battery storage.
Gomberg recounted losing power for three days during a 2020 wildfire evacuation and described investing in a whole-house generator. He told colleagues he wants to "remove disincentives, so that people could make these investments and not get taxed on them." The bill would exclude certain…
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