{"id":9503,"date":"2018-02-16T14:10:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T19:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9503"},"modified":"2018-02-16T14:10:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T19:10:40","slug":"moco-delegates-kill-moon-country-club-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9503","title":{"rendered":"MoCo Delegates Kill Moon Country Club Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n

Montgomery County\u2019s Delegates have killed a local bill proposed by Delegate David Moon (D-20) that would have eliminated a special tax break for country clubs contained in state law.\u00a0 Seventeen Delegates voted to kill the bill while seven voted in its favor.<\/p>\n

Under current state law, the State Department of Assessments and Taxation (SDAT) is permitted to enter into agreements with country clubs possessing golf courses that would set the assessed value of their land at $1,000 per acre.\u00a0 Moon\u2019s bill would have phased out these agreements in Montgomery County subject to approval by voters<\/a>.\u00a0 The fiscal note<\/a> on the bill indicated that the state government would have received an extra $1 million a year in tax revenue and the county government would have received an extra $10 million a year once the agreements were ended.\u00a0 Despite the fact that the county just reported a $120 million shortfall<\/a>, neither the County Executive nor the County Council supported the bill.<\/p>\n

Since it was a local bill, the bill needed to clear Montgomery County\u2019s House delegation before advancing to further votes by the county\u2019s Senators and the full General Assembly.\u00a0 That vote took place this morning.\u00a0 After two unsuccessful attempts were made to amend the bill, Delegate Kathleen Dumais (D-15) made an unfavorable motion on it, which is tantamount to a no vote.\u00a0 Delegate Sheila Hixson (D-20) seconded the motion.\u00a0 Seventeen Delegates voted in favor of that motion and seven voted against.\u00a0 The seven Delegates who voted in support of Moon\u2019s bill were Moon, Ana Sol Gutierrez (D-18), Aruna Miller (D-15), Andrew Platt (D-17), Jeff Waldstreicher (D-18), Shane Robinson (D-39) and Jheanelle Wilkins (D-20).\u00a0 We reprint the vote tally<\/a> below.\u00a0 In reading it, remember that a \u201cYea\u201d vote is a vote to kill the bill.<\/p>\n

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By Adam Pagnucco. Montgomery County\u2019s Delegates have killed a local bill proposed by Delegate David Moon (D-20) that would have eliminated a special tax break for country clubs contained in state law.\u00a0 Seventeen Delegates voted to kill the bill while seven voted in its favor. Under current state law, the State Department of Assessments and … Continue reading MoCo Delegates Kill Moon Country Club Bill<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,582,132,134],"tags":[1545,2090,1641,1539],"class_list":["post-9503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-david-moon","category-property-taxes","category-taxes","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-country-clubs","tag-david-moon","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2th","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9507,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9503\/revisions\/9507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}