2025 bills / S.B. 37
S.B. 37 Minimum Basic Tax Rate Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Vetoed by governor (stopped here)
What this bill does
The bill would make the state pay the full cost of the basic school program for any school district that levies the combined minimum basic tax. Those districts would have to send the revenue that tax raises to the state, and the bill would repeal older rules on state and local shares of basic school program costs.
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Official description
- ensures state funding in an amount that covers the total cost of the basic school program for a school district that imposes the combined minimum basic tax rate
- requires school districts that impose the combined minimum basic tax to remit to the state the revenue the tax generates
- repeals provisions regarding state and local contributions toward the basic school program
- makes technical and conforming changes
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Every vote
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote to approve it · 1/29/2025 4:43 PMWho voted how
- 18 yes, 6 no, 5 absentFirst of two Senate votes · 2/6/2025 3:21 PMWho voted how
- 19 yes, 8 no, 2 absentFinal Senate vote · 2/7/2025 12:00 PMWho voted how
- 10 yes, 0 no, 1 absentHouse Revenue and Taxation Committee: Amendment Recommendation · 2/13/2025 9:43 AMWho voted how
- 10 yes, 0 no, 1 absentHouse Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote to approve it · 2/13/2025 9:46 AMWho voted how
- 41 yes, 27 no, 7 absentFinal House vote · 2/19/2025 11:44 AM
- 20 yes, 8 no, 1 absentSenate vote to accept the other chamber's changes · 2/20/2025 10:31 AM