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House committee backs school board referendum amendments after timing questions
Summary
The House Revenue and Taxation Standing Committee advanced a substitute for HB 170 that clarifies expedited referendum timing for local tax laws and differentiates school tax laws; Granite School District warned accelerated timelines may not give taxpayers time to learn about and pay new levies before year-end tax bills.
The House Revenue and Taxation Standing Committee on Feb. 3 unanimously adopted a substitute to HB 170 and voted to pass the bill out of committee with a favorable recommendation after the sponsor said the measure clarifies accelerated referendum timing for local tax laws.
Representative Shipp, sponsor of HB 170, told the committee the bill makes explicit that election officers may conduct a local tax-law referendum entirely by mail and that once a referendum qualifies for the ballot ballots are mailed to voters within 30 days. "Voters get…
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