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Senate passes bill to standardize county assessing and pooling of collection funds
Summary
The Utah Senate passed Senate Bill 61 after extended floor debate; the bill requires recipient counties to adopt a higher levy to share pooled funds and moves contested budget reviews to a county appraisal trust for peer review. Sponsors said the change promotes uniform appraisal practices and addresses litigation concerns.
The Utah State Senate voted to pass Senate Bill 61, a measure intended to standardize how counties assess and collect property taxes and share pooled funds across county lines. Sponsors told the Senate the bill creates incentives for recipient counties to control costs and establishes peer review through a county appraisal trust.
Former senator Lowell Peterson, who described himself as the sponsor of the earlier law that created the current system, said a task force of county commissioners worked for a year to craft the proposal. "It is the purpose of the state to…
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