Committee Passes Property Tax Reform As Is

The Democratically controlled Indiana House Ways and Means Committee unanimously approved Republican Governor Mitch Daniels’ property tax relief bill yesterday without a single modification "We think the public wants property tax relief," explained Indianapolis Democrat Bill Crawford, who chairs of the committee, "and we wanna keep it moving as expeditiously as possible." Crawford's committee chose to ignore more than 40 proposed amendments and sent the bill directly to the full house – which lawmakers say will probably spend hours debating some of the proposed changes.