2026 Regular Session
HB521
(Constitutional Amendment) Authorizes a taxing authority to levy a millage at a rate lower than the maximum authorized rate under certain circumstances (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)
Legislative progress
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This summary includes only completed milestones supported by recorded actions. It does not predict the next step, and it preserves later committee reassignments, concurrence, conference, veto, and approval actions when they occur.
Partner positions
Dislikes
This amendment allows taxing authorities to temporarily lower millage rates without losing their ability to raise them back to prior maximum levels in the future. In doing so, it removes an existing restraint that helps protect taxpayers from future increases without voter approval. Tax reductions should be meaningful and lasting—not temporary measures that preserve the ability to increase taxes later and invite use for political expediency.
Recorded floor votes
2 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.
April 13, 2026 · House
House Vote on HB 521 FINAL PASSAGE (#429)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
95 yea–0 nay · 10 absent
May 11, 2026 · Senate
Senate Vote on HB 521 FINAL PASSAGE (#721)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
36 yea–0 nay · 3 absent
Committee referrals
April 14, 2026 · Senate
Revenue & Fiscal Affairs
March 17, 2026 · House
Civil Law and Procedure
February 26, 2026 · House
Ways and Means
Instrument history
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This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.
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House Effective date: See Act.
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House Becomes Act No. 273.
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House Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.
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Senate Signed by the President of the Senate.
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House Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
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House Received from the Senate without amendments.
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Senate Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. View roll call
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Senate Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
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Senate Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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Senate Reported favorably.
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Senate Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.
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Senate Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
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House Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. View roll call
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House Scheduled for floor debate on 04/13/2026.
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House Read by title, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
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House Reported without amendments (7-0).
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House Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
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House Reported favorably (16-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
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House Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
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House First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
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House Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
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House Prefiled.