House updates home-value tiers for school district tax impact notices; bill passes second reading

House Bill 22 passed second reading after the sponsor described it as a straightforward alignment of the home-value tiers used in school district property tax impact statements with other notices in statute.

Representative Romano said the previous standard used home values of $100, $200,000 and that the bill updates school-district reporting to the same set of values—$100,000, $300,000 and $600,000—used elsewhere to improve consistency and transparency. Romano called the bill a recommendation from the House Education interim committee and said it had passed unanimously in the committee and in taxation.

There was no recorded debate on the floor beyond closing statements. The House recorded 99 votes in favor and 0 opposed on second reading; the bill will be reported by the committee of the whole and proceed through the remaining House steps.