Missouri Senate

Senate Committee Substitute

COUNTY ROAD AND BRIDGE TAXES

This act provides that ballot questions to abolish the township form of government in a county shall also provide for a countywide tax for road and bridge purposes. (Sections 65.610 and 65.620)

This provision is identical to SB 940 (2018).

This act also corrects the description of St. Francois County in a provision of law relating to expenditures of the county's special road and bridge tax moneys.

This provision is identical to SB 650 (2018) and is similar to SCS/HB 87 (2017) and to a provision contained in HCS/SB 332 (2017) and HCS/SB 146 (2017).

PUBLIC SAFETY SALES TAX

This act adds the cities of Centralia and Lebanon to the list of cities authorized to propose a sales tax for the purposes of improving public safety. Such sales tax, if approved by the voters, would be at a rate of 0.5%.

This provision is identical to SCS/SB 885 (2018), and is substantially similar to HCS/HB 2186 (2018) and HB 2712 (2018).

COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICTS

Under current law, in order for a school district to become attached to a community college district, a petition must be submitted to the school board of the school district signed either by voters of the district equal in number to ten percent of those voting in the last school election at which school board members were elected or by a majority of the voters of the district, at which point an election must be called. This act provides that a community college district may, by a majority vote of its board of trustees, propose a plan to the voters of the school district to attach the school district to the community college district, levy a tax rate equal to the rate applicable to the community college district at the time of the vote of the board of trustees, and call an election upon the question of such plan. The community college district shall be responsible for the costs associated with the election.

This provision is substantially similar to SB 990 (2018).

JOSHUA NORBERG