Lawley's property tax bill dies in committee

State House Rep. Martha Lawley (R-Worland) was disappointed to report the failure of her sponsored bill to amend the current property tax deferral program after it died in the Senate Revenue Committee on Feb. 24.

The proposed legislation, House Bill 121, would have raised the responsibility of property tax deferment out of the counties to the Department of Revenue, a change that Lawley suggested c...