- House Committee Substitute -

HCS/SCS/SB 894 - This act allows St Louis and Kansas City, by ordinance, to discharge special tax bills, including costs, if such city determines that doing so will accrue to the public benefit. This provision also appears in SCS/HS/HB 1238.

The act adds trash to current weed control and removal provisions St Louis and Kansas City, and provides new punishments for littering and illegal dumping. Similar provisions appear in HS/HCS/HB 1305.

The act also authorizes cities to impose an alternative debt service levy, in addition to and apart from that allowed by Section 92.031 RSMo, for the support of certain specified purposes. This provision is the same as one in SCS/HS/HB 1238.

The act also provides for the reduction of the size of the St Louis Planned Industrial Expansion Authority from fifteen members to five by attrition. This provision also appears in SCS/HS/HB 1238 and in SCS/HB 1706.

It also allows, in any county which becomes a first classification county after September 1, 2000, one percent of all ad valorem taxes allocable to the county and each taxing authority in the county, to be deducted from taxes collected on the first five hundred million dollars of assessed valuation. The one-percent fee will be assigned among the political subdivisions. This provision also appears in SCS/SB 733 and in SB 965.

It allows the county collector to apply payments for property taxes against any delinquent property taxes before applying such payment to taxes due in the current year. It requires a sheriff's sale for delinquent property taxes in charter counties of the first classification to begin at 10:00 a.m. The bill also repeals 141.550 RSMo, concerning sales of property to satisfy tax liens. Similar provisions are also found in SCS/HS/HB 1238.

It forbids persons who have violated municipal building or housing codes in charter counties of the first classification from bidding on property at a delinquent property tax sale. This provision is also found in SCS/HS/HB 1238.

It expands the land tax collection law to include Buchanan and Clay Counties. It allows the court administrator in counties of the first classification to record a deed on property sold at a delinquent property tax sale. Any challenge to the validity of an administrator's or sheriff's deed must commence within 2 years. These provisions also appear in SCS/HS/HB 1238.

The act also allows Kansas City to accept illegally-dumped yard and solid waste. Similar provisions appear in HCS/SB 753 and in SCS/HS/HB 1238.

This act also authorizes the County Commissions of Clay and Buchanan Counties to establish a Land Trust for disposition or

payment of delinquent taxes or liens again such property. This provision also appears in SCS/HS/HB 1238.

DAVID TALLMAN