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Senate Finance Recommends Hurricane Relief Measures: Property tax assistance and $110M interest fund, $100M rapid-response fund
Summary
The Senate Finance committee recommended bills that provide tax-assist payments to property owners in nine counties wounded by Hurricane Helene and created funds to cover local loan interest and a $100M rapid response and recovery fund for future disasters.
The Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee recommended two disaster‑recovery measures to the calendar designed to aid counties hit by Hurricane Helene and to give the state rapid‑response tools for future natural disasters.
Senator Jeremy Crow presented Senate Bill 6007, which he said provides tax-payment assistance for owners of taxable residential and business property (excluding state-assessed properties) damaged by the hurricane in Carter, Cox, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson, Unicoi and Washington counties. Crow…
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