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Conferees consider Oct. 1 budget-certification deadline, protest-petition rules and a $60M "Astra" fund
Summary
Conferees reviewed proposals to move local budget-certification deadlines to Oct. 1, require county clerks to use prior-year levies if budgets are not timely certified, create a $60 million Astra fund and establish a taxpayer protest-petition process tied to new notification requirements.
Conferees reviewed property-tax and taxpayer-notification provisions that appear in the Senate substitute for House Bill 2,125 and in Senate Bill 35, including changes to certification deadlines, protest-petition rules and a new state transfer to an "Astra" fund.
Amelia, a committee staff member, summarized the Senate substitute for House Bill 2,125 as proposing two principal changes to local tax administration: moving the universal deadline for taxing subdivisions to certify budgets and the amount of property tax to be levied from August 25 to October 1, and changing the deadline for county treasurers to mail tax statements from December 15 to December 1. Amelia also explained that the bill ties a sanction to the October 1 budget deadline: if a taxing jurisdiction fails to certify its budget and levy by 5 p.m. on October 1, the county clerk would use the prior year's budget and ad valorem tax amount for that taxing jurisdiction when preparing tax rolls.
On the Senate Bill 35 content discussed by conferees, staff…
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