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Committee amends tax-lien bill but fails to pass it, then tables House Bill 420
Summary
Lawmakers amended House Bill 420 to remove online auction requirements and preserve a three-year redemption period; the amended bill failed a final passage vote in committee and members later tabled the measure for potential future consideration.
Chair Fielder opened executive action on House Bill 420 and an unnamed member moved that HB 420 "do pass." Representative Konauer then offered a substitute motion to table the bill; the motion to table failed in a roll call (chair reported the result as 10 to 11), so the bill remained open for debate.
Representative Zona moved to amend HB 420 with amendment 420.001.002. Committee staff Megan explained the amendment is drafted as a substitute bill and makes four principal changes: it removes a notice to additional interested parties; it retains a three-year redemption period (removing an earlier proposed extension to five years); it removes the ability for any party acting on a property owner’s behalf to redeem a tax lien; and it removes a requirement for an online tax deed auction with real-time bidding.
Representative Konauer said she would vote no on the amendment because, in her view, the substitute language departed from what had been presented at hearings and county treasurers she consulted said the amendment did not improve the bill. "This is not what we heard," Konauer said. Representative Close also opposed the amendment, focusing on what she called an ‘‘absurd’’ outcome that could leave mobile homes tied to tax-redemption actions.
The committee called the question and took a roll call vote on the amendment; after a corrected vote, the amendment passed 11 to 10. A member then moved that the bill "do pass" as amended. Following a roll call, the bill failed to pass the committee by a vote reported as 8 to 13.
After that defeat, Chair Fielder moved to table HB 420. The committee took a voice vote, with several proxy ayes recorded, and the chair announced HB 420 was tabled and should remain in members’ folders in case it is brought off the table later. No floor action or final disposition beyond tabling was taken in the committee that day.
The committee recorded multiple formal steps on HB 420: a failed substitute-to-table motion early in the sequence, passage of the Representative Zona amendment, failure of the final passage vote on the amended bill, and a subsequent voice-vote motion that tabled the bill for the time being.
