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Committee hears request for interim study of special districts and reporting requirements
Summary
Senate Joint Resolution 8 asks the Legislature to study special districts and reporting requirements after the governor's property tax task force raised concerns about gaps in available data; sponsor said better information is needed to understand special-district tax impacts.
Senator Greg Hertz asked the House Taxation Committee to support Senate Joint Resolution 8, a request for an interim study of special districts and their reporting requirements.
Senator Hertz said the governor's property tax task force raised concerns that special districts and special improvement districts — sometimes known locally as special-purpose entities — account for a growing share of property tax bills in some areas, and that existing reporting to the Department of Administration is not providing sufficient detail for lawmakers to determine total tax bills.
"Right now, special districts, special improvement districts kinda got a couple different things...we're not getting information as adequate on special districts that we would like to see," Senator Hertz told the committee, explaining the study would review reporting requirements and the information the Legislature needs to evaluate special-district impacts.
There were no proponents or opponents who testified at the hearing and no informational witnesses. Senator Hertz asked the committee for a do-pass recommendation for the study request.
