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Senate advances SB46 after debate over rural revenue and hold‑harmless reimbursement
Summary
After extended debate about impacts on rural counties, the Senate moved Senate Bill 46 (remote-cabin property tax relief) to the third reading calendar; an amendment to delay the effective date failed and the bill advanced with a recorded favorable vote in the transcript.
Senators debated Senate Bill 46 at length on Feb. 11, 2003, centering on whether a property-tax break for remote mountain cabins would unfairly shift costs to rural counties.
Senator Maine, the bill sponsor, said the measure is aimed at ‘‘people on fixed incomes’’ losing family cabins because rising property valuations have made them unaffordable. He described the proposal as a capped tax break that would exempt a portion of remote cabins from local property tax, with a state reimbursement to counties so their budgets are not reduced:…
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