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<br /> <br />d) Maintain full funding for Driver Education; <br /> <br />23) State/County Partnership for Education – Seek legislation to <br />establish a new state-county partnership to address statewide <br />public school capital challenges--including but not limited to <br />maintenance, renovation, construction and debt--through a <br />dedicated, stable funding stream that is consistent from county to <br />county and sufficient to meet the school facility needs of all 100 <br />counties; <br /> <br />24) Machinery Act – Support local governments’ need for more <br />flexibility to remedy measurement and/or condition property <br />appraisal errors related to local property tax functions. North <br />Carolina property tax law substantially limits the ability of local <br />governments to address property tax discrepancies, such as <br />prohibiting the refund of prior years’ taxes paid after a <br />measurement and/or condition property appraisal error is <br />discovered. Just as local governments can recoup prior years’ <br />property taxes from owners for “discoveries”, local governments <br />should likewise be authorized to refund prior years’ taxes paid <br />when situations such as measurement and/or condition property <br />appraisal errors are discovered; <br /> <br />25) Re-instatement of Earned Income Tax Credit – Support <br />legislation to re-instate the State Earned Income Tax Credit which <br />greatly benefitted low wage earners until its elimination after the <br />2013 tax year; <br /> <br />26) Homestead Exemption – Support revisions to the Homestead <br />Exemption provisions of the Machinery Act to: <br />a) provide greater opportunities for low-income seniors to <br />remain in their homes and not be displaced due to property <br />tax burdens by approving a one-time ten percent (10%) <br />increase in the base income qualification standard; and <br />maintaining the current provisions which increase the <br />income qualification standard each year based on any cost- <br />of-living adjustment made to the benefits under Titles II and <br />XVI of the Social Security Act for the preceding calendar <br />year; and <br />b) diminish the discriminatory features of the current exemption <br />provisions relating to married couples by establishing <br />graduated income qualification standards for single <br />individuals versus married couples; <br /> <br />27) Agriculture – Support Conservation of Working Lands and <br />Farmland Preservation – Support a revision to the revenue and <br />acreage requirements of the Use Value Program to reduce <br />8