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Bill to consolidate state school levies and expand senior property-tax relief draws mixed support
Summary
House Bill 2376 would merge two state school levies into a single levy, raise qualification thresholds for seniors/disabled/veterans, add a standard deduction for calculating disposable income, and change the statement labeling for the state school levy; Department of Revenue estimates tens of thousands of additional households would qualify while also projecting state revenue increases and a local revenue shift.
House Finance received a staff briefing and public testimony on House Bill 2376 on Feb. 4. Serena Dolly, staff to the committee, told members the bill would consolidate the state’s two school levies into a single levy and set a specified rate in the bill for calendar year 2027 (transcript wording: "$2 and 9 and a half cents per assessed value"). The measure would raise each program income threshold by 10 percentage points, increase the portion of a home's assessed value that may be exempted under the senior/disabled/veteran exemption program, and offer a standard deduction of $7,500 for claimants (plus an additional $7,500 for a spouse or domestic partner) as an alternative to itemizing deductions when calculating combined disposable…
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