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Committee advances bill that alters treatment of emergency and substitute school levies; amendment preserving rollbacks tabled
Summary
The House Ways and Means Committee moved House Bill 129 out of committee after adopting an amendment that creates a "fixed-sum" glide path for existing emergency levies and prevents certain levies from counting toward the 20-mill floor until a district's next revaluation. An amendment to grandfather state rollback credits was laid on the table 9–4.
The House Ways and Means Committee favorably reported House Bill 129 after adopting an amendment intended to provide a transition for school districts that currently rely on emergency or substitute levies.
The bill seeks to standardize how different types of voted school levies are treated in the state’s school-funding and property-tax calculations and to address the so-called 20-mill floor — the statutory threshold that affects state rollback calculations. Committee members said the measure would increase transparency in levy language and prevent future large spikes in tax bills tied to certain levies.
Vice Chair Representative David Thomas explained an…
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