[StBernard] PLEASE SUPPORT SHINING THE LIGHT ON PROPERTY TAX INCREASES

[Westley Annis]

PLEASE SUPPORT SHINING THE LIGHT ON PROPERTY TAX INCREASES

Last night, a Senate committee approved HB 83, authored by myself and
several others, which improves the public notice requirements related to
proposed increases in millage rates without voter approval by shining the
light on property tax increases. The bill has already passed the House and
only needs to pass the Senate to be on its way to the Governor's desk. 
 
The bill is an important tool in our fight against property tax increases. 
 
Citizens have a right to know:
 
.        When they are taxed
 
.        How much they will be taxed
 
.        What their tax money will be used for. 
 
Current law does not require that any of this crucial information be
provided despite that fact that a taxing body can raise millions of dollars
and impose hundreds of dollars in property tax increases on individual
citizens at a single meeting.    
 
Millage rate rollups are already taxation without representation . Taxpayers
should at least know how much they are being taxed and express their opinion
.
 
HB 83 also provides for Internet postings of millage rate meetings, since
many people are now using the Internet to obtain information (the Internet
has been in commercial use for 15 years), it should be utilized in providing
important information to the public. 
 
HB 83 also closes a glaring loophole in the public notice requirement,
created by Attorney General Opinion 08-0257 which allows taxing bodies to
reschedule millage increases to a later date without additional notice. In
other words, a taxing body can now reschedule a millage increase vote and
only have to post a 24 hour notice on their door. 
This loophole is simply an insult to taxpayers and needs to be closed. HB 83
requires that adequate notice of the new meeting be posted on the Internet.
 
HB 83 is important to our fight against property tax increases. Please
contact your Senator to vote FOR HB 83 (225-342-2040), which could be on the
Senate Floor as early as this Sunday.
.
A list of the Senators and their emails appears below. Please consider
sending your Senator an email asking them to support HB 83, which shines the
light on property tax increases. A short email from you would really help
which:
.        Asks your Senator to vote FOR HB 83
.        To shine the light on property tax increases by improving the
public notice on millage rate rollups and 
.        Close a glaring loophole in public notice requirements created by
an AG opinion
.        Also list your name and address
 
Legislators generally respond best to constituent emails from their own
constituents who write short notes of support in their own words.
 
If you're not sure who your Senator is, click here
<http://senate.legis.state.la.us/Senators/ByAddress.htm> .

 Thanks,

Tim    

Senator "Jody" Amedee                      amedeej at legis.state.la.us 

Senator Conrad Appel                         appelc at legis.state.la.us  

Senator Sharon Weston Broome         lasen15 at legis.state.la.us

Senator Joel T. Chaisson                     websen at legis.state.la.us

Senator Sherri Smith Cheek                smithcheek at legis.state.la.us

Senator Dan Claitor                             claitord at legis.state.la.us

Senator A.G. Crowe                             crowea at legis.state.la.us

Senator Jack Donahue                        donahuej at legis.state.la.us

Senator Reggie P. Dupre                     lasen20 at legis.state.la.us
Senator "Nick" Gautreaux                    gautreauxn at legis.state.la.us 

Senator Cheryl A. Gray Evans              grayc at legis.state.la.us 

Senator D. A. "Butch" Gautreaux         lasen21 at legis.state.la.us 

Senator Elbert L. Guillory                     guillorye at legis.state.la.us 

Senator Troy Hebert                             hebertt at legis.state.la.us

Senator David Heitmeier                      heitmeid at legis.state.la.us

Senator Lydia P. Jackson                     jacksonl at legis.state.la.us

Senator Robert W. "Bob" Kostelka       kostelka at legis.state.la.us

Senator Eric LaFleur                            lafleure at legis.state.la.us

Senator Gerald Long                            longg at legis.state.la.us

Senator Robert "Rob" Marionneaux     lasen17 at legis.state.la.us

Senator Daniel "Danny" Martiny           martinyd at legis.state.la.us
<mailto:martinyd at legis.state.la.us> 

Senator Joe McPherson                        lasen29 at legis.state.la.us

Senator Michael J. "Mike" Michot         lasen23 at legis.state.la.us

Senator Jean-Paul J. Morrell                morrelljp at legis.state.la.us

Senator Dan "Blade" Morrish                morrishd at legis.state.la.us

Senator Willie L. Mount                        lasen27 at legis.state.la.us

Senator Edwin R. Murray                      murraye at legis.state.la.us

Senator Ben Nevers                              neversb at legis.state.la.us

Senator Julie Quinn                              quinnj at legis.state.la.us

Senator Neil Riser                                 risern at legis.state.la.us

Senator B.L. "Buddy" Shaw                  shawb at legis.state.la.us

Senator John R. Smith                          smithj at legis.state.la.us

Senator Francis Thompson                   thompsof at legis.state.la.us

Senator Mike Walsworth                       walsworthm at legis.state.la.us 








 


































 

 

Senator Dale M. Erdey                         erdeyd at legis.state.la.us
Senator Yvonne Dorsey                       dorseyy at legis.state.la.usSenator
Ann Duplessis                         lasen2 at legis.state.la.us Senator John
A. Alario                        alarioj at legis.state.la.us Senator Robert
Adley                          adleyr at legis.state.la.us
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