Republicans in the Arizona State Legislature are thanking House Education Committee Chairwoman Beverly Pingerelli sponsoring House Bill 2173, a bipartisan bill aimed at correcting school district property taxes in rural Arizona.
Pingerelli’s bill, signed by Governor Katie Hobbs, was introduced after mistakes identified in the current fiscal year caused dramatic tax increases in several rural school districts, most prominently in the Continent Elementary School district in Green Valley.
HB 2173 ensures that taxpayers who are paying the minimum qualifying tax rate in their school district receive credit for the taxes they pay for their high school students educated in another school district. With the bill’s enactment, elementary-only districts like Continental will no longer pay tuition for these high school students but rather they will be “open enrolled” in the school of their choice like any other student around the student.
“We will resolve the issue of overpaid property taxes for these districts in the upcoming budget,” said Rep. Lupe Diaz. “We have proposed a reasonable resolution to the Governor’s office to provide targeted funding to those rural school districts, so taxpayers receive an equitable reduction in order to pay them back for last year’s overcharge.”
“As soon as we were made aware of these unintended consequences, we swiftly came together to find a solution,” said Senator Gowan. “My amendment on this bill ensures the dollars that should not have been collected will be returned to taxpayers in the form of a deduction on following year’s property tax. I also made sure the school districts most disproportionally affected in LD-19 were taken care of.”
Pelosi may be a coniving idiot, but she apparently was right that politicians, ‘need to pass it to find out what’s in it.’
“As soon as we were made aware of these unintended consequences, we swiftly came together to find a solution,”
Maybe if they had thought about it first then there would mot have been such a quagmire of problems! Or, maybe they get paid by the hour…
ROFL – you presume they can ‘think’
Akin to Pelousi saying… “we have to pass the bill to find out waht’s in it.” Apparently reading beforehand is not allowed, and usually doesn’t matter afterwards cuz the damage is done.