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USBE staff lay out how 2025 tax bills change school property‑tax mechanics and local impacts
Summary
Dale Frost briefed the committee on how the state’s six school levies work, why property taxes rose, and the likely effects of 2025 legislation (including HB1, HB236, HB300, SB238 and SB206) on districts’ revenue distribution, truth‑in‑taxation process, and recapture calculations.
State school‑finance staff gave a detailed briefing on property taxes, levies and the legislative changes from the recent session that will affect local school budgets.
Dale Frost, minimum school program administrator, told the finance committee K‑12 funding is primarily drawn from income and property taxes and walked members through the six levies that generate or affect school property taxes: the basic school levy (set by the state), the charter school levy, the debt service (GO bond) levy, and three locally determined levies (voted local, board local, and capital local). Frost explained how the basic levy is netted…
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