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• Does it include all of the property within this farm or just the part of the property that butts up to
• I bought and sold a lot of property.
• If your conservation value is agriculture and it relies on water, water is a real property right.
• This tax is all personal property. So what I mean by personal property? I don't mean just your...
• Personal property. So what I mean by personal property?

Summary: The committee’s final day focused first on a historical overview of New Mexico tax packages by Pam Stokes of Legislative Council Services. She described how tax packages have alternated over the decades between tax relief, revenue raising, and tax reform, with examples ranging from the creation of the gross receipts tax in 1966 to major packages in 1981, 1986, 1991, 1994, 2005, 2019, 2022, 2024, and the vetoed 2025 package. Members discussed how tax policy often tracks revenue conditions, how packages can combine increases and decreases, and how local government gross receipts taxes and hold-harmless distributions have affected communities differently. Several members reflected on past packages, especially the 2004 food tax repeal and the 2013 film tax and manufacturing changes, and noted that tax policy can have major economic and political effects even when it is not “sexy” legislation. The committee then heard a proposal to expand the health care practitioner gross receipts tax deduction to include co-insurance, and to extend the sunset date. Sponsor Senator Figueroa said the bill was intended to help recruit and retain medical providers and build on prior deductions for co-pays and deductibles. Testimony explained that co-insurance is the patient’s share after the deductible, that providers currently absorb the gross receipts tax on those payments, and that the proposal would cost about $30 million to the state plus about $20 million to municipalities and counties, with the exact fiscal impact likely to be updated. Members raised concerns about the effect on local governments, whether insurers could be required to reimburse providers, whether the bill would actually attract doctors, and whether better evaluation measures and sunsets should be added. The sponsor said the bill was part of a broader set of efforts to address provider shortages and that the discussion would continue. Representative McQueen then presented a bill to update the Land Conservation Incentives Act. He and conservation partners said the program has protected more than 500,000 acres but has not kept pace with rising land values, especially for irrigated agricultural land in the Middle Rio Grande. The proposal would increase the percentage of conservation value eligible for the credit, raise the per-transaction cap from $250,000 to $2 million, and make the credit refundable rather than only transferable. Testimony emphasized that the program is voluntary, keeps land in private ownership and production, and helps land-rich, cash-poor landowners preserve farmland and water rights. Members asked about average credit amounts, how easements work, whether landowners could effectively buy land and then use the credit, and whether there should be inflation indexing or a statewide cap. The discussion also touched on water rights, fencing, and the role of conservation easements in protecting agricultural land and compact water deliveries. Finally, Senator Sharer previewed his 2% tax proposal with a historical presentation on New Mexico tax law, using props to illustrate the evolution from early territorial tax codes to the modern tax system. He argued that the state’s current tax structure is overly complex and that recent federal changes have disrupted the personal income tax base. The committee did not take any votes on the day’s presentations; the meeting was primarily informational, with members offering feedback and raising policy concerns for future sessions.

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• There goes our property values. There goes our revenue values.
• So, you know, I just don't want anybody to lose their property values that they work so hard for."
• <00:29:31.279> There There goes our property values.
• There There goes our property values.
• <00:30:08.960> so<00:30:09.279> hard property values that they work so hard property

Bills: HB61, HB176, SB12

Keywords: 1136, house, all

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• This exempts us from paying property tax on a few key pieces of property in the state and puts us really
• So, we also pay, we also um actually do not pay uh property taxes on our properties, our hunter management
• actually do not pay uh do pay property actually do not pay uh do pay property taxes<00:02:38.879
• > our<00:02:40.400> hunter taxes on our a properties, our hunter taxes on our a properties
• when we have those those uh properties when we have those those uh properties open<00:03:06.640>

Bills: SF0024

Keywords: lottery, debit card payments, gambling regulations, state revenue, financial transactions, 916, all

Transcript Highlights:

• because the overall value of the property in the community is going up, so everyone’s share of what
• It's difficult to separate the income-producing ability of that property from its ultimate value.
• That's when your agency was determining the value for the property for the purpose of the utility property
• <01:23:04.600> the producing property from the value of the producing property from the value
• market value property their fair market value so<01:29:52.119> thank<01:29:52.320> you

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• shift property taxes onto other property shift property taxes onto other property taxpayers.<00:
• Sylvia, under current law, assessors are not allowed to reduce the value of property that is subject
• What Senate article 2, section 6 is doing is adding another mechanism by which the value of property
• <01:54:10.719> is reduce the value of of property that is reduce the value of of property
• be which um the value of property can be which um the value of property can be reduced<01:54:43.199

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• you want to turn that property into, that becomes the standard for determining value.
• you want to turn that property into, that becomes the standard for determining value.
• you want to turn that property into, that becomes the standard for determining value.
• you want to turn that property into, that becomes the standard for determining value.
• you want to turn that property into, that becomes the standard for determining value.

Keywords: This meeting was split into two parts due to a technical issue. This is the complete meeting pulled from backups. Meeting Start: 00:00:00 Roll Call: 00:00:01 24RS HB198: “Angela’s Law”: 00:01:22 KRS Chapter 202C: 00:11:50 Eminent Domain: 00:54:35, 958, all

Summary: The committee first approved the June 10, 2025 minutes, then took up House Bill 198, Angela’s Law, sponsored by Representative Samara Heavrin. The bill would add a new aggravating circumstance in death-penalty cases when an offender abuses the corpse of a kidnapping or murder victim by engaging in deviate sexual intercourse, sexual intercourse, or sexual contact. Representative Heavrin and the victim’s parents described the underlying case and argued the current law does not adequately account for postmortem sexual abuse, leaving the offender parole-eligible despite the family’s view that the conduct warranted harsher punishment. Several members expressed sympathy and support, and one member suggested the proposal should be drafted carefully so it would apply broadly enough to cover co-conspirators or multiple offenders. No vote on the bill was taken in the portion provided. The committee then heard an informational presentation on KRS Chapter 202C from Judge Lisa Payne Jones and Shauna Mitchell of the Kentucky Judicial Commission on Mental Health. They explained that Chapter 202C, enacted in 2021 to close a gap in the civil-commitment statutes, applies to respondents found incompetent to stand trial who are charged with qualifying serious offenses such as capital offenses, certain Class A and Class B felonies causing death or serious injury, rape in the first degree, or sodomy in the first degree. The process begins with a Commonwealth’s petition, followed by a prompt evidentiary hearing, appointment of a guardian ad litem, and then a commitment hearing if the offense is proven. The presenters outlined the procedural standards and recent statutory changes. At the evidentiary hearing, the Commonwealth must prove the charged offense by a preponderance of the evidence before a judge, with the respondent able to present defenses; if the Commonwealth fails, the respondent must be released. If the case proceeds, the commitment hearing requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt of at least one involuntary-commitment criterion, and the hearing may be before a jury if requested. They noted that a 2024 amendment changed the commitment criteria from requiring all four factors to only one, and added language about recent criminal behavior and prior involuntary hospitalizations under Chapters 202A or 202B. If commitment is ordered, the respondent is placed in a designated forensic psychiatric facility, currently KCPC.

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• value in your communities.
• You may have both high-value districts and low-property-value districts.
• industrial property or not.
• industrial property or not.
• individual property tax bill.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• The area around there that have been low income for a long time or moderate income, those property values
• property values are raising like crazy. property values are raising like crazy.
• And so, the land rising property values.
• But the property value is going to surge and then, as a point of not more importantly, there have been
• value?

Keywords: 1136, house, all

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• is taxed at market value. property is taxed at market value.
• in property value.
• all properties to market value, and it is the best option that we have right now, except it's going
• Yes, they fear that if their property value goes up, their...
• Their property value goes up, their taxes will go up. Not necessarily true.

Keywords: 926, house, all

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• The seasonal recreational properties are not in the tax space for what we call referendum market value
• The seasonal recreational properties are not in the tax space for what we call referendum market value
• "The seasonal recreational properties are not in the tax space for what we call referendum market value
• The seasonal recreational properties are not in the tax space for what we call referendum market value
• tax values or wealth, so they don't have to rely too heavily on local property taxes to fund their schools

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• underlying property rights?
• park that enhances the values of that park.
• So it’s stated that public entity shall accept not less than 110% of the fair market value or value in
• Public entities would accept not less than 110% of the fair market value or value in use, whichever is
• The fair market value funds are identified through fair market value analysis to DCAM and approved by

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight held an oversight hearing on draft regulations implementing Article 97 of the Massachusetts Constitution under Chapter 274 of the Acts of 2022, the Open Space Act. Chairs Cabral and Collins framed the hearing as a review of how the new process for dispositions or changes in use of Article 97 land would work, including public notice, environmental justice protections, replacement land, appraisals, and the role of the legislature. Under Secretary Stephanie Cooper and Commissioner Adam Bakke testified for EEA/DCAM, followed later by Deputy Inspector General O’Neill and Deputy Inspector General Giles on appraisal review. Much of the discussion focused on how the draft regulations would operate in practice. EEA said the regulations would require advance public notice, define “comparable location” for replacement land, and allow the Secretary to make findings on whether an action would adversely affect environmental justice communities. Members pressed for longer public comment periods, clearer notice to local officials, more frequent updates to the site evaluation tool, and a clearer definition of terms such as “limited duration” for permits and licenses. EEA said the regulations are intended to standardize a process that has been handled through policy and case-by-case review, and that the legislature still retains the final authority to approve any Article 97 disposition. Committee members also questioned whether the draft rules shift too much discretion to the Secretary and whether the proposed “proponent” process could allow private entities to drive Article 97 actions. EEA responded that non-public proponents would still need municipal support and legislative sponsorship, and that the regulations do not create a new avenue to bypass the existing home rule and legislative process. Members raised concerns about the current policy’s unanimous-vote requirements for municipal commissions, the proposed waiver provisions, whether MEPA applies, and the lack of explicit enforcement or penalty language in the act or regulations. EEA and DCAM said the act does not provide an enforcement mechanism and that disputes would generally be handled through the courts or the Attorney General. The Inspector General’s office explained its role in reviewing appraisals for special legislation, including Article 97 matters, to ensure compliance with USPAP standards and to forward its review to DCAM. The hearing did not include any votes or formal committee action; members indicated that the committee may later issue recommendations to the executive agencies based on the testimony and questions raised.

Transcript Highlights:

• MY GOAL IS NOT TO ACQUIRE PROPERTY.
• AND THE REASON I AM NOT LOOKING TO ACQUIRE PROPERTY IS BECAUSE IF WE ACQUIRE PROPERTY IT TAKES THAT PARCEL
• WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT RETAIL VALUE AND WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE TAX ASSESSED VALUE AND WE ARE
• OUR STATUTE TALKS ABOUT INSURED VALUE OF THE STRUCTURE.
• THE PROCESS HAS A MEANINGFUL AND QUANTIFIABLE VALUE.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Most of the value of our property is in the land, not our house.
• Was the average value of a residential property in the city of Concord?
• Was the average, the mean value of any residential property in the city of Concord?
• properties to higher-value properties, to luxury properties.
• property transfers on owner-occupied homes above 200% median assessed value, or $731,000.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Joint Committee on Revenue held a public hearing on a series of bills focused largely on local-option real estate transfer fees and housing funding tools for communities facing severe affordability pressures. Testimony strongly favored bills for Somerville, Concord, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, Chatham, and a statewide local-option transfer fee, with speakers arguing that high-end real estate transactions should help fund affordable housing, anti-displacement efforts, workforce housing, and related capital improvements. Elected officials and local housing leaders described rising rents and home prices, investor activity, shrinking year-round housing stock, and difficulty recruiting or retaining teachers, police, health care workers, and other essential employees. Several witnesses emphasized that the proposals would be optional for municipalities, could include exemptions for first-time homebuyers or seniors, and would direct revenue into local affordable housing trust funds or housing banks. Committee members asked questions about who would pay the fee and whether it could make housing less affordable, and supporters responded that the fees would be targeted at higher-value transactions and designed with local flexibility. For Somerville, the delegation and Mayor Katjana Ballantyne backed both a local home rule petition and statewide enabling legislation, saying the city has already used zoning reform, inclusionary zoning, and local housing funds but still needs a new revenue source to address displacement and investor-driven purchases. For Concord, Representative Carmine Gentile and Concord housing advocates supported a home rule petition and the statewide bill, arguing that a modest fee on sales above $1 million could generate predictable revenue for affordable housing production and preservation. One committee exchange focused on whether the fee would affect most Concord sales and whether it would be passed on to buyers; supporters said the policy was intended to shift costs toward higher-value properties and help leverage other funding sources. The committee also heard testimony on House 4105, which would redirect a casino-related revenue stream to the Healthy Incentives Program. Farmers, advocates, and residents said the current funding was originally intended to support horse racing but has not met that goal, and that the money would be better used to support Massachusetts farmers and food-insecure residents through HIP. In a separate bill, Senator Becca Rausch testified in support of Senate 268, which would create a state-level hostile learning environment complaint process for higher education institutions and potentially strip tax exemptions from colleges or universities found to have such environments; she cited anti-Semitic and transphobic incidents on campuses and argued that existing federal protections should be mirrored in state law. The hearing also included testimony on college tuition debt reduction legislation from Senator Michael Moore, who said the bill would allow a deduction for tuition and fees paid to Massachusetts public colleges and universities to ease student debt and support the state’s workforce. A major portion of the hearing focused on Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket housing bank proposals. Hospital, school, housing, planning, and municipal officials from Martha’s Vineyard said the island’s year-round housing shortage is harming health care, schools, and the local workforce, and urged approval of a housing bank funded by a local-option transfer fee. Nantucket witnesses made similar arguments, pointing to a very high median home price, a large seasonal housing stock, and the need for a dedicated revenue stream to preserve and create year-round housing. Supporters repeatedly cited the long-running success of the islands’ land banks as evidence that transfer fees can work without harming real estate markets. Senator Julian Cyr and Representative Thomas Moakley Luddy also backed the Cape and Islands transfer-fee bills, saying the region needs bold action and a sustainable local funding source to address its housing crisis.

Transcript Highlights:

• affirm the value.
• lease property by Senator Avila.
• at just value as of January 1 of the year following abandonment of homestead on the property.
• That's almost half of our real property... ...taxes, particularly the homestead property.
• If your value goes up 10 percent, the millage goes down 10 percent, your property taxes stay the same

Summary: The Finance and Tax Committee considered several tax-related measures. SB 674, allowing county property appraisers to budget for and pay hiring or retention bonuses with Department of Revenue approval, was supported by property appraisers and reported favorably. C.S. for SJR 318, as amended, would create a tangible personal property exemption for agricultural land used in agricultural production or agritourism; the amendment clarified the property’s location and allowed the Legislature to define conditions, and the resolution was reported favorably with support from Farm Bureau and the Florida Chamber. The committee also advanced C.S. for SB 1664, as amended, which requires locally approved discretionary taxes to be reauthorized by voters when they expire and sets rules for taxes tied to revenue bonds. Local government and tourism-related groups raised concerns about impacts on tourist development taxes, beach funding, transportation surtaxes, and long-term planning, while supporters argued voters should periodically reaffirm taxes; the bill was reported favorably. C.S. for SJR 1510 and its implementing bill, SB 1512, were both amended to sharply narrow a proposed long-term lease property tax exemption to one qualifying property and to single-family homes, mobile homes, and condominiums; counties and cities opposed the measures as tax shifts, but both were reported favorably. The committee then took up SPB 7034, the Senate tax package, which includes permanent sales tax exemptions for certain clothing and bullion, multiple tax holidays, a temporary motor vehicle fee reduction, a property tax study, corporate and insurance tax credit changes, a communications services tax freeze, and other tax provisions, with staff estimating $2.1 billion in total revenue reduction. Testimony included support for studying property taxes and strong opposition to the firearm and ammunition tax holiday from students and advocacy groups, who argued it was unsafe and inappropriate; others urged adding combined reporting or removing tourist development tax changes. After debate, the committee reported the package favorably and also approved a motion to submit it as a committee bill. The meeting ended after Senator Bernard recorded an affirmative vote on tab 5 and the committee adjourned.

Transcript Highlights:

• And I don't think the value of their property should be the sole indicator. where the property exists
• c> control, valued property rights, local control, valued property rights, local control, and<01:
• What is the assessed value of your property? My property?
• And this would work to limit what the value of that property is.
• of that property limit what the value of that property is.<02:16:39.359> And<02:16:39.519>

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Does it include all of the property within this farm or just the part of the property that butts up to
• The easement, if your conservation value is agriculture and it relies on water and water is a real property
• That percentage amount of how much value they're getting for the conservation value for each tax credit
• This tax is all personal property.
• But they basically assigned a value.

Keywords: 996, all

Transcript Highlights:

• We have kept the total property values at each town lower than they would be if building were welcomed
• We have kept the total property values at each town lower than they would be if building were welcomed
• The truth is she thinks smaller houses might affect her property values, and she doesn't want to have
• <01:18:01.040> there's value for their property but there's value for their property but there's
• value than residential property.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• to offset property and income taxes. to offset property and income taxes.
• and how this on the Lakeshore value and how this valuable<00:45:17.599> property<00:45:18.160
• <00:48:19.200> In 1,774,127,127 in property taxes. In 1,774,127,127 in property taxes.
• So, I don't have an properties.
• Um Senator value would be computed?

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• others that need help in rehabilitating those properties.
• Of those, fully 18% of the properties are unused.
• We appreciate this thoughtful approach by the sponsor that doesn't erode property tax values so we can
• Chair, it's on the property owner to report to MFA. Mr.
• of the home, but the value of the area down.

Keywords: 996, all

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• We've had a really nice rebound in property values. It's become a very desirable place to live.
• As I found out from my research, uh, there's a different increase in value from residential property
• <01:14:39.280> values busts and the residents property values busts and the residents property
• anticipate your property value to be. anticipate your property value to be.
• property values for local tax purposes. property values for local tax purposes.

Keywords: 1189, house, all