The Kansas Senate Committee on Assessment and Taxation restored the revenue-neutral transparency protections to a bill passed by the Kansas House of Representatives by a vote of 115-6. The bill would have rewarded local governments for raising taxes while stripping those provisions from property tax increases. House Bill 2396 removed the “Truth in Taxation” bill’s revenue-neutral requirements — which require county clerks to send notices to taxpayers of every taxing subdivision notifying them of a proposed increase and the time and date of a hearing at which the entire tax increase would be voted upon. HB2396 instead would have replaced those requirements with a “protest petition” in which voters would have 30 days “Qualified voters of a taxing jurisdiction would have 30 days following the date the governing body of a taxing jurisdiction certifies to the county clerk the amount of property tax to be levied to sign a protest petition.”
Source: The Sentinel
