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Assessor says House Bill 3940 will add thousands of manual review hours to tax work for 2026–27
Summary
Lane County’s assessor told commissioners that House Bill 3940 (2025 session) will require manual reevaluation of over 15,000 accounts and add an estimated 6,000–7,000 hours of work to an already stretched assessment and taxation staff, affecting 25 rural fire protection districts.
Mary, Lane County’s assessor and tax collector, told the board that legislation from the 2025 session — cited in the meeting transcript as House Bill 3940 — creates substantial new workload for the assessment office.
Mary said the bill will require manual reevaluation of more than 15,000 accounts because changes to fire patrol assessment thresholds and tax-code area…
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