Statewide property tax reform legislation filed by Representative Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, this past Thursday may have no impact on Dawson County’s taxing entities. Burrows filed House Bill 2 that includes legislation dropping the rollback property tax rate to 2.5 percent for any taxing entity that collects more than $15 million in combined ad valorem property and sales taxes. No Dawson County taxing entity will be affected by the cap if the legislation is signed into law as written. Dawson County receives less than $10 million in property/sales tax collections in a year, according to County Judge Foy O’Brien. “I think we’re well under that ...