There are multiple property tax bills making their way through the Iowa Statehouse at the moment.

Iowa House Representative for District 23 Ray Sorensen says one of the bills the House is looking at deals with reducing the amount of property taxes for Iowans.

“The original draft, what it would do, it would provide certainty for taxpayers by reducing the levy to $5.40 (per $1,000 of valuation), it would increase transparency requirements, and then it would cap assessment increases. I know those are the main things, but Ways and Means and Appropriations, they meet and their work gets heavy at the end of session. And also at the end of session, a lot of some of the policy pieces that have made it, and then some of these bigger bills, there’s a lot of bargaining back and forth between the House, Senate and the Governor, and things change.”

Sorensen advises not to get locked in on what bills are when they’re introduced, but to follow them through the committee process, because there are amendments and negotiations that can cause them to change from their original form.