On Record (5)
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Elimination of sales tax on household utility use. Provides that a power subsidiary or a person engaged as a public utility is not a retail merchant making a retail transaction when the subsidiary or person furnishes or sells electrical energy, natural or artificial gas, water, steam, or steam heating service to a person for domestic consumption.
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Remediation of tax sale parcels. Permits a county treasurer to require purchasers of designated parcels of real property that are: (1) located in a consolidated city; and (2) subject to tax sale, and purchased at or as a separate part of a tax sale; to submit remediation plans describing how the purchasers will bring the parcels of real property into …
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Neutral
Lets county treasurers require buyers of tax-sale properties in blighted areas to clean them up as a condition of purchase. Targets investors who buy cheap properties at tax sales and let them rot.
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Neutral
Makes the five IURC commissioners elected by voters in nonpartisan elections starting in 2026, instead of appointed by the governor. Candidates must live in the region they represent and can't have worked for a utility in the previous five years. The argument: appointed commissioners answer to the governor and his donors. Elected ones answer to the people paying the bills.
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Neutral
Lets you buy a small plug-in solar panel (up to 1,200 watts) and connect it to your home without needing your electric company's permission, inspection, or a special meter. Right now utilities can block or regulate even small solar setups. This bill says: if it plugs in and it's under 1,200 watts, it's your business. Bipartisan support.