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Senate advances bill offering limited property-tax relief for remote second homes, adds state reimbursement to protect rural counties
Summary
The Utah Senate advanced second-substitute Senate Bill 63 to third reading after adopting a friendly amendment that would make the measure operate like a circuit-breaker: the state reimburses counties for revenue lost by granting limited exemptions to remote secondary residences. The floor vote to send the bill to third reading was 20–8.
Senators on the floor advanced a measure aimed at giving narrowly defined property-tax relief to owners of remote secondary residences, and agreed to a change that shifts the fiscal burden from small counties to the state.
Senator Eldon Maine, sponsor of second substitute Senate Bill 63, told colleagues the bill targets "secondary residences" such as cabins that receive no municipal water or sewer and are not used as rentals or time shares. Maine said supporters include veterans groups and senior organizations who raised the issue after owners on fixed incomes risked losing cabins they built decades ago.
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