A week before Speaker Daniel Perez unveiled a legislation suite meant to give voters a say next year in reducing their property taxes, Rep. Ryan Chamberlin introduced a more modest relief proposal with similar aims.

Chamberlin, a Belleview Republican, described the bill ( HB 149 ) as a sensible first step toward ending property taxes for good.

In short, the measure, if approved as-is, would require all counties and school districts to reduce property tax millage rates to the same levels as those levied during the 2022-23 fiscal year.

He dubbed the measure “Freedom 1,” as it’s the first of what his office called a “three-tiered plan to reduce and replace property taxes with some other form of taxation.”

The name of that plan, which Chamberlin announced in mid-September ,

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