SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 54
90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR WESTFALL.
Read 1st time February 9, 2000, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
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JOINT RESOLUTION
Submitting to the qualified voters of Missouri, an amendment repealing section 11(b) of article X of the Constitution of Missouri relating to approval of school taxes, and adopting one new section in lieu thereof relating to the same subject.
That at the next general election to be held in the state of Missouri, on Tuesday next following the first Monday in November, 2000, or at a special election to be called by the governor for that purpose, there is hereby submitted to the qualified voters of this state, for adoption or rejection, the following amendment to article X of the Constitution of the state of Missouri:
Section A. Section 11(b), article X, Constitution of Missouri, is repealed and one new section adopted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 11(b), to read as follows:
Section 11(b). Any tax imposed upon such property by municipalities, counties or school districts, for their respective purposes, shall not exceed the following annual rates:
For municipalities--one dollar on the hundred dollars assessed valuation;
For counties--thirty-five cents on the hundred dollars assessed valuation in counties having three hundred million dollars, or more, assessed valuation and having by operation of law attained the classification of a county of the first class; and fifty cents on the hundred dollars assessed valuation in all other counties;
For school districts [formed of cities and towns, including the school district of the city of St. Louis]--[two dollars and seventy-five] one dollar and twenty-five cents on the hundred dollars assessed valuation[; For all other school districts--sixty-five cents on the hundred dollars assessed valuation].