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Beatty’s Countywide Base Levy Bill Spurs Lengthy Committee Discussion on Equity, Complexity and Implementation
Summary
House Bill 156 would aggregate district base levies at the county level and impose a single countywide base mill rate, aiming to narrow disparities in base mills across districts and strengthen the state’s guaranteed tax base aid equalization.
Representative David Beatty introduced House Bill 156, which would replace district‑level base mill levies (the nonvoted base levies that fund the general fund minimum) with a countywide base levy. He said the new countywide approach would aggregate taxable value and enrollment at the county level and produce a single mill rate that would be levied across school taxing jurisdictions in the county, modeled after the existing countywide retirement levy process.
‘‘The result will be a single mill rate that will be levied on each school taxing jurisdiction within the county,’’ Beatty said. He told the committee the bill aims to narrow wide…
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