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Committee advances bill to repeal obsolete 1920s tax-code delivery requirement
Summary
The Senate City, County & Local Affairs Committee advanced House Bill 1634 to repeal an outdated 1920s requirement that tax bills be physically delivered to townships, saying the provision is unused and administratively obsolete; the bill passed the committee by voice vote.
The Senate City, County & Local Affairs Committee on the floor advanced House Bill 1634, a measure to repeal an obsolete section of the state tax code that historically required physical delivery of tax bills to townships. The chair called the bill forward for consideration and no members of the public rose to speak for or against it.
Senator Lansieds, district 7, who described the measure as coming from the Association of Counties, said the provision dates to the 1920s and no longer reflects current practice. "It's just repealing that section of code that's obsolete and information is not used at all anymore," Lansieds said, explaining counties no longer deliver tax notices in that manner.
Committee members had no substantive questions on the record about the effect of repealing the provision. The transcript records a motion to pass the bill made in committee (the motion is identified in the record as coming from Senator Flippo), followed by a voice second and a voice vote in which the chair called for ayes; the measure was approved by the committee.
The committee did not record a roll-call tally in the transcript, and no formal amendments were introduced during the discussion. The repeal was framed as a housekeeping change to align the statute with modern administrative practice.
The committee moved on to the next item after approving HB1634; no public testimony or formal opposition to the repeal was recorded in the committee transcript.
