The Gallagher Amendment, adopted in 1982, aimed to maintain a balance between residential and non-residential property tax revenue. Repealing it would disproportionately burden homeowners, potentially leading to higher property taxes for them, while granting commercial properties a significant advantage.
The property tax ratio paid through residential and commercial property taxes was becoming imbalanced, but the Colorado Legislature decided repeal the amendment and replace it with nothing. This set us down the path we’re on today where residential property tax valuations are soaring by 25-50% state wide. That’s why these members deserve to carry the torch of shame.
| SB20-223 | Assessment Rate Moratorium & Conforming Changes | ||
| Colorado House | (Gallagher Repeal) | ||
| Arndt | Froelich | Kraft-Tharp | Soper |
| Benavidez | Garnett | Lontine | Sullivan |
| Bird | Gonzales-Gutierrez | McCluskie | Tipper |
| Buckner | Gray | McLachlan | Titone |
| Buentello | Herod | Melton | Valdez A. |
| Caraveo | Hooton | Michaelson Jenet | Valdez D. |
| Catlin | Jackson | Mullica | Weissman |
| Coleman | Jaquez Lewis | Rich | Will |
| Cutter | Kennedy | Roberts | Wilson |
| Duran | Kipp | Singer | Woodrow |
| Esgar | Becker | Sirota | Young |
| Exum | Snyder | ||
| Colorado Senate | |||
| Bridges | Exum | Kolker | Roberts |
| Buckner | Fields | Marchman | Rodriguez |
| Coleman | Gonzales | Moreno | Sullivan |
| Cutter | Hansen | Mullica | Winter F. |
| Danielson | Jaquez Lewis | Priola | Zenzinger |
Despite having multiple chances to do something real about the issue of soaring residential property taxes, the 2023 legislature could only manage a bill that would put a lite “TABOR repeal” on the ballot in 2023. For more information on what this proposition does see the Independence Institute’s great series on YouTube. These are the legislators that are salivating over your TABOR refunds.
| SB23-303 | Reduce Property Taxes And Voter-approved Revenue Change | ||
| Prop HH | House Vote | ||
| Amabile | Garcia | Marshall | Story |
| Bacon | Gonzales-Gutierrez | Martinez | Titone |
| Bird | Hamrick | McCluskie | Valdez |
| Boesenecker | Herod | McCormick | Velasco |
| Brown | Jodeh | McLachlan | Vigil |
| Daugherty | Joseph | Michaelson Jenet | Weissman |
| deGruy Kennedy | Kipp | Ortiz | Willford |
| Dickson | Lieder | Parenti | Woodrow |
| Duran | Lindsay | Ricks | Young |
| English | Lindstedt | Sharbini | |
| Epps | Lukens | Sirota | |
| Froelich | Mabrey | Snyder | |
| Senate Vote | |||
| Bridges | Fields | Kolker | Roberts |
| Buckner | Ginal | Marchman | Rodriguez |
| Coleman | Gonzales | Moreno | Sullivan |
| Cutter | Hansen | Winter F. | Zenzinger |
| Danielson | Hinrichsen | Mullica | |
| Exum | Jaquez Lewis | Priola | |
Help us fight this tax nightmare and make the Colorado Legislature take up a real property tax reform bill that doesn’t pick the pockets of your TABOR refund!
