Property Taxes: Contaminated Property. Legislative Constitutional Amendment.
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Full Text of Proposed Law	PROPERTY TAXES: CONTAMINATED PROPERTY. LEGISLATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.

• Directs Legislature to allow repair or replacement of environmentally contaminated property or structures, as defined, without increasing the tax valuation of the original or replacement property.

• For tax purposes, property value is the assessed valuation for 1975-76 unless the property is reappraised upon purchase, new construction, or change in ownership. For property rendered unusable by environmental contamination, this measure allows either: transfer of the base-year valuation to a replacement property if the contaminated property is transferred; or exclusion of repair or replacement of damaged structures from the definition of "new construction."

Summary of Legislative Analyst's
Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact:

• Property tax revenue losses probably less than $1 million annually in the near term to schools, counties, cities, and special districts.

• School revenue losses (about half of total) would be made up by the state.

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