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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

SB 279

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Relating to: assistance to households and property owners. (FE)

Federal aid Governor Housing Property tax Revenue department of

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
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Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Assistance to households and property owners

This bill requires the Department of Revenue, in conjunction with the counties

and municipalities, to provide payments to every property taxpayer in this state.

The amount that each taxpayer receives is equal to approximately 10 percent of the

property taxes levied on the person's real property in 2020, less the amount of the

school levy property tax credit and less the amount of any delinquent real property

taxes, special assessments, special charges, or special taxes owed by the taxpayer.

The bill requires the governor to allocate $1,067,824,380 from moneys received from

the federal government pursuant to the federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021

to make the payments under the bill, plus an additional $20,000,000 to pay to DOR,

the counties, and the municipalities for the administration of the payments.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Marklein (R) , Stroebel (R)

28 cosponsors

Allen and Schraa , Armstrong (R) , Born (R) , Cabral-Guevara (R) , Callahan (R) , Duchow (R) , Edming (R) , Gundrum (R) , Jagler (R) , Katsma (R) , Kitchens (R) , Knodl (R) , Krug (R) , Kurtz (R) , Moses (R) , Murphy (R) , Oldenburg (R) , Petryk (R) , Plumer (R) , Rozar (R) , Snyder (R) , Steffen (R) , Swearingen (R) , Tranel (R) , Tusler (R) , Vorpagel (R) , Wittke (R) , Zimmerman (R)

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 11, Noes 4

Passed 11–4 Apr 8, 2021 official source full page

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

Full history

  1. Apr 5, 2021 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Marklein and Stroebel; cosponsored by Representatives Cabral-Guevara, Wittke, Armstrong, Born, Callahan, Duchow, Edming, Gundrum, Jagler, Katsma, Knodl, Krug, Kurtz, Moses, Murphy, Oldenburg, Petryk, Plumer, Rozar, Snyder, Swearingen, Tranel, Tusler, Vorpagel and Zimmerman

  2. Apr 5, 2021 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Joint Committee on Finance

  3. Apr 7, 2021 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  4. Apr 7, 2021 · Senate

    Representatives Allen and Schraa added as cosponsors

  5. Apr 7, 2021 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  6. Apr 8, 2021 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 11, Noes 4

  7. Apr 8, 2021 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  8. Apr 9, 2021 · Senate

    Representative Steffen added as a cosponsor

  9. Apr 13, 2021 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 4-14-2021 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  10. Apr 13, 2021 · Senate

    Representative Kitchens added as a cosponsor

  11. Apr 13, 2021 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  12. Apr 14, 2021 · Senate

    Placed on the foot of the 11th order of business on the calendar of 4-14-2021

  13. Apr 14, 2021 · Senate

    Laid on table

  14. Mar 15, 2022 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1