ALLOW ELECTRONIC ASSESSMENT ROLLS

House Bill 4888 as introduced

Sponsor:  Rep. Holly Hughes

Committee:  Local Government

Complete to 10-20-15

SUMMARY:

House Bill 4888 would amend the General Property Tax Act to allow an assessor to maintain the assessment roll electronically.

Now under the law, each year all local assessors must complete an assessment roll before the first Monday in March. The statute describes in some detail the information the property tax assessor must include on that assessment roll.  House Bill 4888 would retain all of those provisions, and specify that the assessment roll may be in an electronic data processing format.

MCL 211.24

FISCAL IMPACT:

As written, the bill would have no state fiscal impact, although to the extent that local units are able to realize savings by utilizing electronic assessing rolls, local unit costs could potentially decline by an unknown amount.

                                                                                        Legislative Analyst:   J. Hunault

                                                                                                Fiscal Analyst:   Jim Stansell

■ This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan House Fiscal Agency staff for use by House members in their deliberations, and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.