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Panel approves amendment to protect heirs' property transfers from reassessment
Summary
The subcommittee reported House Bill 4,071 with an amendment that would exempt qualifying transfers among descendants made to clear heirs' property from triggering property-tax reassessment. Sponsors and community groups said the narrow change will help historically rooted settlement communities clear title without imposing unaffordable taxes.
A legislative subcommittee reported House Bill 4,071, the Heirs' Property Bill, after adopting a strike-and-insert amendment incorporating language from a companion measure. The bill would exclude certain transfers among related descendants made for the purpose of clearing title from being treated as assessable transfers that trigger property-tax reassessments.
Representative Landing, the bill sponsor, described settlement communities in his district and said the threat of a reassessment when families clear title often forces fractional…
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