SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 965
90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR CHILDERS.
Read 1st time February 3, 2000, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
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AN ACT
To amend chapter 137, RSMo, relating to ad valorem taxes by adding thereto two new sections relating to the same subject.
Section A. Chapter 137, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto two new sections, to be known as sections 137.721 and 137.727, to read as follows:
137.721. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 137.720, in all counties which become counties of the first classification after September 1, 2000, one percent of all ad valorem taxes allocable to the county and each taxing authority within the county shall continue to be deducted from taxes collected on the first five hundred million dollars of assessed valuation, and one-half percent collected on the remainder, and deposited in the assessment fund. The one-percent fee shall be assigned among the political subdivisions by the assessor, who shall determine the percentage of total valuation in the county divided into five hundred million dollars. The collector shall retain one percent of that percentage of each political subdivision's property taxes, and one-half percent of the remainder, for the assessment fund.
137.727. 1. In all counties and any city not within a county there shall be, from January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2006, a one-half percent deduction from the collection of all ad valorem taxes allocable to each taxing authority within the county or city. One-half of the amounts collected shall be deposited in the "County Technology Fund", which is hereby created. Such fund shall be administered by the governing body of each county and each city not within a county. Moneys contained within such fund shall be distributed as needed to the assessor, auditor, clerk, collector, county commissioner, coroner, public administrator, recorder of deeds and treasurer of the county or city not within a county, and shall be expended solely for computer hardware and software including installation and maintenance agreements, salaries and benefits or contracted services for data entry personnel and data conversion, aerial photography, digitized mapping projects including maintenance or installation and maintenance of a GIS program. The remaining one-half of the amounts collected shall be transferred to the county assessment fund, shall be expended for the same purposes as specified for the county technology fund and shall not be used to reduce county general revenue contributions to the county assessment fund.
2. In calendar year 2006, the county commission shall call a meeting between a representative of the county and one representative of each political subdivision levying property taxes in the county, such representative to be named by the governing body of each respective political subdivision and the county, for the purpose of voting on retention of the fee provided for in this section. The fee shall continue to be deducted from the collection of ad valorem taxes allocable to each taxing authority within the county or city if a majority of such representatives vote in favor of retention.