House Revenue Committee advances five bills, including historic‑property assessment changes

The House Committee on Revenue moved five bills to the House floor on Thursday, March 27, advancing measures that ranged from a routine reviser’s clean‑up to a change that would reactivate a historic‑property tax special assessment program.

The committee voted to send each bill to the floor with a “do pass” recommendation after brief staff presentations and without public hearings. Representative Walters made the motions to advance each measure; motions passed without recorded roll‑call tallies in the transcript.

House Bill 2,073 — reviser’s housekeeping House Bill 2,073 is the session’s reviser’s bill, described by staff as an annual housekeeping measure that makes no policy changes and removes obsolete statutory language. The committee moved the bill to the floor with a due‑pass recommendation. Representative Reschke volunteered to carry the bill to further proceedings.

House Bill 2,083 — study of inflation‑adjustment language House Bill 2,083 would direct the Legislative Revenue Office to study whether it is feasible to align in statute a single location for language related to inflation…