By Gabrielle Franklin | Fox 31 News
A property tax agreement is one step closer to passing after it cleared the House floor in a vote of 45-18, but not without pushback.
The measure had served as a negotiation between some state lawmakers and supporters of statewide ballot initiatives 50 and 108. The pre-negotiated property tax agreement designed to slow property tax increases cleared the House without much opposition recorded in the final vote, but before members voted, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle let leaders know they did not like the way this bill came to be.
Democrat and Republican members of the House stood in solidarity as representatives voiced frustrations about the process that got the bill on the floor, calling out the governor and leadership for negotiating deals with ballot measure supporters and then presenting the bill to lawmakers to vote on it.