Seniors Property Tax Cut
The House just uanimously approved a constitutional amendment to unfreeze the property taxes of seniors and the disabled on their homestead taxes. The amendment, which will go before voters on May 12, allows the seniors to get the same property tax cut the rest of the state does, then refreezes it at a lower level so it can't be increased. Tax rates are constiutionally frozen as a protection to fixed-income residents, but that also left them out of last year's tax cut passed by the Legislature.