House Finance Committee re‑refers county property tax abatement bill to Local Government Committee

Chair Samuelson opened the House Finance Committee voting meeting and moved to re‑refer House Bill 1214 to the House Local Government Committee. The committee re‑referred the measure after a brief summary and a prompt for negative votes.

The bill, introduced by Representative Solomon and described in committee as addressing "timing for county property tax abatements," was summarized by the committee staff during the meeting. Senior committee legislative executive director Mark Forman stated, "This would clarify the timing for county property tax abatements." No detailed amendment or debate on the substance of the proposal was recorded in the committee transcript.

Because the chair moved the re‑referral and the committee chair called for negative votes, the motion carried and the measure was placed with the House Local Government Committee for further consideration. The transcript does not record a roll‑call tally for this specific re‑referral in the excerpt provided; the committee recorded only that the bill "has been re referred to local government." The record does not specify any additional instructions to staff, amendments, or a hearing schedule.

The committee handled this as a procedural re‑referral and did not take final action on the bill's substance. Further legislative steps, including any public hearing or markup, would be determined by the receiving committee.

Provenance: First related remarks begin at transcript block starting 00:05:09 ("You can link to the committee documents...") and the re‑referral motion and result appear beginning at 00:05:32 ("And I am, making a motion to re refer this bill...").