2025 bills / S.B. 16
S.B. 16 Property Tax Notice Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill makes indigent people eligible for the county discretionary property tax deferral program. It also requires county auditors to print on property valuation notices a statement that owners 65 or older, disabled, or facing extreme hardship may qualify for a deferral on their primary residence, along with a phone number for application information.
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Official description
- provides that the county discretionary deferral program is available to an indigent individual
- requires a county auditor to include on the property tax valuation notice:
- a statement that a property owner who is 65 years old or older, disabled, or experiencing an extreme hardship, may be eligible for a deferral on the property owner's primary residence
- a telephone number to obtain information about how to apply for a deferral
- makes technical corrections
- includes a coordination clause to provide that the changes to S.B. 197, Property Tax Amendments, supersede the changes to this bill
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 16 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 16 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
- 25 yes, 0 no, 4 absentFinal Senate vote · Jan 21, 2025Who voted how
- 10 yes, 0 no, 1 absentHouse Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 27, 2025Who voted how
- 73 yes, 0 no, 2 absentFinal House vote · Mar 6, 2025Who voted how
- 21 yes, 0 no, 8 absentSenate vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 6, 2025Who voted how