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Ultimately, the fate of the legislation lies with Democrats.

In his State of the State address Jan. 17, Polis said he is joining bipartisan calls for “cracking down on ghost guns, which are completely untraceable and increasingly being used to carry out violent crimes.” 9News reported in November that the alleged Club Q shooter used ghost guns in the deadly attack that left ve dead and at least 17 wounded.

As for the red ag law, Polis said in because they are used to calculate how much someone owes in taxes. The rate is multiplied by a home’s market value, which is determined by a county assessor. What a property owner pays is then determined by the mill levy rate. A mill is a $1 payment on every $1,000 of assessed value. The 2023 reduction will mean that a residential property owner who owns a home worth $300,000 with a mill levy of 100 will pay about $1,900 versus $2,145. (The state has a good explainer on this here.)

In 2024, the rates will go up slightly. For single-family residential property owners, the assessment rate will be approximately 6.95%, down from 7.15%. For multifamily residential property, his speech that he wants to expand who can ask a judge to order a gun seizure. Right now, it’s limited to law enforcement and family members and others close to the person whose guns would be seizures, like roommates.

“Why not expand this to include additional petitioners, like district attorneys?” Polis said during his speech. Democrats in the legislature also want to let counselors — in the mental health and education elds — ask for a seizure order.

What the governor didn’t mention in his address was a ban on so-called assault weapons. “I haven’t seen anything like that,” Polis told e Sun when asked about the forthcoming bill, a draft of which was posted online.

In February 2018, when Polis was a member of Congress, he was a cospon- the rate will be 6.8%.

(Why approximately, you ask? The single-family residential property assessment rate will be set in 2024 at a level to be determined by the state property tax administrator to ensure that the state hits its $700 million property tax relief target for the 2023 and 2024 property tax years.)

For those who own commercial property used for agriculture and/ or to produce renewable energy, the 2024 assessment rate will be 26.4%, down from 29%.

The 2024 rates match a reduction approved for the 2021 and 2022 tax years under a measure passed by the legislature in 2021.

Finally, the legislature extended a change allowing senior citizens sor of a bill that would have banned so-called assault weapons.

Asked Jan. 17 whether he thinks Polis will be an ally in his push to ban so-called assault weapons in Colorado, Boesenecker wouldn’t say.

“We haven’t had detailed conversations with him about the policy,” Boesnecker said, “so I’d hate to speculate on where (he’s) at.” is story is from e Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support e Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com. e Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media. to defer all of the increases in their property taxes until they sell their homes while allowing everyone else to defer any increases over 4%.

Colorado Sun sta writer Elliott Wenzler contributed to this report.

It’s likely that if more property tax relief is approved by the legislature in 2023, as Polis hopes, it will simply be made by expanding the breaks offered by Senate Bill 238.

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