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House adopts Senate substitute for HB 2745, tightening rules around property-tax notices and protest petitions
Summary
The Kansas House voted 63-59 to concur in the Senate substitute for House Bill 2745, a property-tax measure that shifts the notice and protest process toward a revenue-neutral framework and ties annual allowable tax increases to inflation (CPI) rather than a flat 3% cap, while raising thresholds for successful protest petitions.
Representative Adam Smith moved the House to concur in the Senate substitute for House Bill 2745, describing the measure as a property-tax relief bill intended to limit year-over-year increases by local governments and to make notices easier to understand. "We kind of renamed the revenue neutral rate the revenue neutral process to a property tax estimate," Smith said, adding the Senate reinstated the revenue-neutral process and replaced the House's 3% increase cap with inflation (Midwest CPI) not to exceed 3%.
Smith explained substantive differences between…
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