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Committee hears bill to ease formation of single‑city fire protection districts
Summary
Committee staff and multiple witnesses described substitute Senate Bill 6,037 as a tool to let cities form single‑city fire protection districts without the existing dollar‑for‑dollar levy reduction, while hospital districts and taxpayer groups warned of impacts to existing levy space and tax burdens.
Senate Ways and Means staff briefed the committee on substitute Senate Bill 6,037, which would change how a city’s property tax treatment functions when the city forms a fire protection district.
Jeff Mitchell, staff to the committee, told senators the bill would remove the current requirement that a city reduce its general‑fund property tax levy dollar‑for‑dollar by the amount of a new single‑city fire district levy and would instead reduce the city’s maximum statutory tax rate by the fire protection district’s aggregate rate for districts formed after July 1, 2026. “So for example, if the maximum statutory rate of a city is $3.60 and the fire district imposes a new $1 property tax, the city’s statutory maximum rate would be lowered from $3.60 to $2.60,”…
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