Senate panel reworks property tax bill approved by House

Read Article A Senate committee on Monday rewrote a property tax bill approved by the House that lowers the threshold for when a protest petition could be used to stop local governments from spending more in property taxes than they did the year before. The Senate tax committee sent to the full chamber a bill allowing voters to challenge a budget that spends more in property taxes than it did the year before plus the Midwest consumer price index up to 3% more,