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8 <br /> d) Maintain full funding for Driver Education; <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 /> 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 /> 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 /> 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 /> 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 />