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House committee approves amended bill creating 'sustenance' farm and new forest tax classes
Summary
The House Taxation Committee passed House Bill 27, twice amended, creating a sustenance-use land class for parcels under 640 acres and adding a nonproductive forest land classification with new valuation and tax rates; final committee vote was 11–10.
The House Taxation Committee voted to pass House Bill 27 as twice amended, approving layered changes that create a new classification for small subsistence farms and add a separate nonproductive forest land class.
Megan Moore, staff to the bill, described the sustenance-use amendment as targeting "parcels, contiguous parcels of land of less than 640 acres that are actively devoted to sustenance use," and…
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