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House Revenue Committee keeps long-term homeowners exemption, adds implementation changes and caps high-end benefit
Summary
The committee removed the sunset on House Bill 45 to make the long‑term homeowners property tax exemption permanent, moved claimant notification to March 1 to appear on the April assessment notice, added language to credit months lived in two owner-occupied homes toward eligibility, and approved a $3 million fair‑market-value cap; final committee vote passed 7–0 with two conflicts.
The House Revenue Committee on Feb. 10 voted to advance House Bill 45 with several amendments that make the long‑term homeowners property tax exemption permanent and change how it will be administered.
Ken Gill, administrator of the Department of Revenue’s Property Tax Division, told the committee the bill removes the statutory sunset that would otherwise end the exemption after tax year 2026 and moves the notification requirement to county assessors by March 1 so the benefit appears on the April notice of assessment rather than only on the later tax bill. “It gets rid of the sunset,” Gill said, and shifting the date means “the exemption will be on the notice of assessment that gets sent out in April.”
Converse County assessor Dixie Huxtable, representing the county assessors association, said the March 1 reporting date will improve office efficiency and taxpayer transparency. Huxtable described a one‑page…
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