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Bill Detail: SB25-261

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Title Property Tax Deferral Program Administration
Status Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole (04/01/2025)
Bill Subjects
  • Fiscal Policy & Taxes
  • Local Government
  • State Government
House Sponsors S. Bird (D)
E. Sirota (D)
Senate Sponsors J. Amabile (D)
B. Kirkmeyer (R)
House Committee
Senate Committee Appropriations
Date Introduced 03/31/2025
AI Summary
Summary

Joint Budget Committee. The state has a property tax deferral
program (program) under which the state makes a secured loan to a
qualified taxpayer to pay property taxes owed for the taxpayer's
homestead. The program was available only to seniors and persons called
into active military service until 2021, when the general assembly
expanded the program to also allow an otherwise nonqualifying taxpayer
whose property tax had increased by at least a specified percentage (new
qualified taxpayer) to participate. In 2022, the general assembly shifted
much of the responsibility for the administration of the program from the
county treasurers to the state treasurer.
The bill reverses the 2022 shift of administrative responsibilities
for the program so that county treasurers will generally have the same
responsibilities for administering the program as they did prior to 2022.
The bill also specifies that a new qualified taxpayer may only claim
deferral of property taxes levied for a property tax year commencing on
or after January 1, 2025, if the board of county commissioners of the
county in which the taxpayer's homestead is located has, after receiving
input from the county treasurer of that county, adopted a resolution
requiring the county treasurer to accept applications for such deferral
claims.

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