Lots on taxes after transmittal

We are now past the transmittal cutoff, which means the bills that did not make it from one house to the other in time are now dead, so to speak. No need to worry however, there are still plenty of bills to watch as they move through the bill-making process, some of which I have concerns about. The concerns are either wanting a bill to pass or hoping it dies.

We had one of these concerning bills come through the Senate Tax Committee this last week. The short title of SB 511, introduced by Sen. Daniel Zolnikov, R-Billings, seemed like it might fix some of the state’s runaway property tax increa...