2025 bills / H.B. 454
H.B. 454 Local Government Fees Modifications (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law (stopped here)
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill bars cities from charging the general public for broadband or public safety service and bars towns from charging it for public safety service, with some exceptions. It lets cities and counties adopt a transportation utility fee if they follow set steps, with a voter referendum option.
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Official description
- defines terms
- prohibits a city from imposing a fee on the general public for broadband or public safety service, with exceptions
- prohibits a town from imposing a fee on the general public for public safety service, with exceptions
- authorizes a municipality or county to impose a transportation utility fee if the municipality or county complies with certain requirements
- establishes a process and requirements for a municipality or county to impose a transportation utility fee
- provides that property owned by a religious organization may, under certain circumstances, be exempt from a transportation utility fee
- provides a process to hold a referendum on the imposition of a transportation utility fee or an increase to an existing transportation utility fee
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 454 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 454 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 8 yes, 0 no, 2 absentHouse Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how
- 70 yes, 3 no, 2 absentFinal House vote · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how
- 15 yes, 14 noFinal Senate vote · Mar 6, 2025Who voted how