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Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

AB 490

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Relating to: changes to the local levy limit calculation for a political subdivision that transfers responsibility to provide a governmental service to another governmental unit. (FE)

Municipality Property tax

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Generally under current law, local levy limits are applied to the property tax

levies that are imposed by a political subdivision in December of each year. Current

law prohibits any political subdivision from increasing its levy by a percentage that

exceeds its “valuation factor," which is defined as the greater of either zero percent

or the percentage change in the political subdivision's equalized value due to new

construction, less improvements removed.

Also under current law, if a political subdivision transfers to another

governmental unit the responsibility to provide a service that it provided in the

previous year, the levy increase limit otherwise applicable in the current year is

decreased to reflect the cost that the political subdivision would have incurred to

provide that service. This bill repeals that provision.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Allen (R) , Ballweg (R) , Brooks (R) , Dittrich (R) , Duchow (R) , Gundrum (R) , Katsma (R) , Knodl (R) , Krug (R) , Kuglitsch (R) , Kulp (R) , Loudenbeck (R) , Macco (R) , Ohnstad (D) , Petersen (R) , Rodriguez (R) , Sanfelippo (R) , Snyder (R) , Steffen (R) , Subeck (D) , Tusler (R) , Zimmerman (R)

4 cosponsors

Darling (R) , Kooyenga (R) , Ramthun (R) , Wanggaard (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Local Government, Ayes 6, Noes 3

Passed 6–3 Dec 26, 2019 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Local Government, Ayes 7, Noes 2

Passed 7–2 Dec 26, 2019 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted, Ayes 63, Noes 36

Passed 63–36 Jan 15, 2020 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: PASSAGE

Passed 64–35 Jan 15, 2020 official source full page

Aye · 64

Full history

  1. Oct 1, 2019 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Brooks, Hesselbein, Katsma, Gundrum, Allen, Anderson, Ballweg, Dittrich, Duchow, Knodl, Krug, Kuglitsch, Kulp, Loudenbeck, Ohnstad, Petersen, Rodriguez, Sanfelippo, Snyder, Subeck, Tusler, Zimmerman, Macco and Steffen; cosponsored by Senators Kooyenga, Miller, Petrowski, Wanggaard and Darling

  2. Oct 1, 2019 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Local Government

  3. Oct 15, 2019 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Oct 16, 2019 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Dec 11, 2019 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Brooks

  6. Dec 12, 2019 · Assembly

    Representative Hesselbein withdrawn as a coauthor

  7. Dec 12, 2019 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  8. Dec 13, 2019 · Assembly

    Representative Ramthun added as a coauthor

  9. Dec 13, 2019 · Assembly

    Representative Anderson withdrawn as a coauthor

  10. Dec 26, 2019 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Local Government, Ayes 7, Noes 2

  11. Dec 26, 2019 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  12. Dec 26, 2019 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Local Government, Ayes 6, Noes 3

  13. Jan 8, 2020 · Assembly

    Representatives Ohnstad and Subeck withdrawn as coauthors

  14. Jan 8, 2020 · Assembly

    Senator Miller withdrawn as a cosponsor

  15. Jan 13, 2020 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 1-15-2020 by Committee on Rules

  16. Jan 14, 2020 · Assembly

    Senator Petrowski withdrawn as a cosponsor

  17. Jan 15, 2020 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  18. Jan 15, 2020 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted, Ayes 63, Noes 36

  19. Jan 15, 2020 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  20. Jan 15, 2020 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  21. Jan 15, 2020 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 64, Noes 35

  22. Jan 15, 2020 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  23. Jan 15, 2020 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  24. Feb 19, 2020 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Kooyenga

  25. Feb 28, 2020 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Local Government, Small Business, Tourism and Workforce Development

  26. Apr 1, 2020 · Senate

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1