We're following breaking news from Lincoln, where lawmakers could soon
take a critical vote on property tax relief in the
special session.
LB 34 is the main package before lawmakers now.
They spent the morning making some technical tweaks to the
bill, but now they're trying to break a filibuster and
vote for cloture, which will allow them to end debate.
Then there'd still be another vote on final reading before
it goes to the governor.
LB 34 would repurpose the property tax credit fund and
send it directly back to taxpayers.
It makes some budget reductions and places caps on cities
and county governments.
Governor Pillin came out today saying he would veto any
bill that attempts to water down local government spending caps.
He writes.
Quote, I will veto any bill that comes to my
desk with local government property tax collection caps that are
weaker than those included in LB34 when it passed general
file consideration on Tuesday, August 13th.
He continues writing that bill allowed for property tax collection
growth of 0 percent or inflation, whichever is greater, and
included common sense exceptions for law enforcement and public safety
investments necessary to keep our community secure.
But does that sound like what he told KETV News
Watch 7's Bill Shammer during an exclusive interview in July?
You said you believe in separation of powers.
If you get something on your desk that is not
everything that you wanted, would you sign it?
Of course, yeah, I'm obviously not going to violate principles
that I believe in, but yeah, I'm, I, I've said,
you know, awesome policy is if we can agree on
80%, that's spectacular policy.
I'm going to be signing stuff in this, and I'm
not that I'd like to be better or I would
like different, but that's not how it works.
While we're keeping a close eye on the floor of
the legislature, you can expect any movement on property tax
relief to come straight to the KETV mobile app.