Senate2025-26 sessionFiscal note
SB 5994 — Preserving timber tax distributions for school districts with recent school district levy failures.
Signed into law — Chapter 74, Laws of 2026
- Sponsor
- Cortes
- Introduced
- January 12, 2026
- Status
- C 74 L 26
- Last action
- Effective date 3/16/2026. (March 16, 2026)
What this bill does
Extends timber tax revenue distributions to school districts without qualifying levies in a given calendar year, if the district had qualifying levies in effect in either of the previous two calendar years.
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Floor votes
- House — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 4, 202696 yea · 0 nay · 2 not voting
- Senate — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 11, 202647 yea · 2 nay
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