Indiana Senate Bill 405 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-10 - Senator Head added as coauthor
Pending: Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [PDF]

Assessment of agricultural land. Provides that the soil productivity factors used for the March 1, 2011, assessment of agricultural land must be used for assessment dates occurring after March 1, 2014, unless and until new soil productivity factors are approved in a statute enacted by the general assembly. Specifies the manner in which the department of local government finance (DLGF) shall adopt rules to provide a method for determining the true tax value of agricultural land. Provides that the method in effect for the 2014 assessment date must be used until superseded by a method provided in rules adopted by

Assessment of agricultural land. Provides that the soil productivity factors used for the March 1, 2011, assessment of agricultural land must be used for assessment dates occurring after March 1, 2014, unless and until new soil productivity factors are approved in a statute enacted by the general assembly. Specifies the manner in which the department of local government finance (DLGF) shall adopt rules to provide a method for determining the true tax value of agricultural land. Provides that the method in effect for the 2014 assessment date must be used until superseded by a method provided in rules adopted by

Sen. Jean Leising [R]	Sen. Susan Glick [R]	Sen. Jeff Raatz [R]	Sen. Brent Steele [R]
Sen. James Tomes [R]	Sen. Mark Messmer [R]	Sen. Michael Crider [R]	Sen. Clyde Perfect [R]
Sen. Randall Head [R]

2015-02-02 - Senate - Senate Committee on Agriculture - Committee Vote (Y: 6 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-10	Senate	Senator Head added as coauthor
2015-02-03	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to committee on Tax & Fiscal Policy
2015-02-02	Senate	Senators Crider and Perfect added as coauthor
2015-02-02	Senate	Senators Steele, Tomes, Messmer added as coauthors
2015-01-22	Senate	Senator Raatz added as third author
2015-01-12	Senate	First Reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture
2015-01-12	Senate	Authored by Senators Leising and Glick

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/bills/senate/405/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/3/3/8/333817a4/SB0405.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/1/4/f/d14f6cb5/SB0405.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/e/2/f/1e2f913e/SB0405.02.COMS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/e/f/6/7ef6edce/SB0405.01.INTR.pdf