FIRST REGULAR SESSION
[TRULY AGREED TO AND FINALLY PASSED]
SENATE BILL NO. 348
90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1999
S1468.01T
AN ACT
To repeal sections 92.031, 205.200 and 206.060, RSMo 1994, relating to tax levies for local governments providing certain public services, and to enact in lieu thereof three new sections relating to the same subject.
Section A. Sections 92.031, 205.200 and 206.060, RSMo 1994, are repealed and three new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 92.031, 205.200 and 206.060, to read as follows:
92.031. 1. Such cities may in the alternative elect by ordinance to levy and impose an annual tax for debt service which tax levy shall be in addition to and independent of the tax levy for capital improvements and operating expenses for hospital, public health, recreation grounds and museum purposes provided for in subdivisions (2) and (3) of subsection 2 of section 92.030.
2. In the event such cities make such election, the tax levy rate for debt service referred to in subdivisions (2) and (3) of subsection 2 of section 92.030 shall be treated as zero for the purpose of calculating the additional tax levy rate authorized for capital improvements and operating expenses for hospital, public health, recreation grounds and museum purposes. Such authorized rate may be increased from its current rate to a rate not to exceed [fifty cents] one dollar per hundred dollars assessed valuation by submission to and approval by a vote of the people.
205.200. 1. Except in counties operating under the charter form of government, the county commission in any county wherein a public hospital shall have been established as provided in sections 205.160 to 205.340 shall levy annually a rate of taxation on all property subject to its taxing powers in excess of the rates levied for other county purposes to defray the amount required for the maintenance and improvement of such public hospital and for constructing and furnishing necessary additions thereto, as certified to it by the board of trustees of the hospital; the tax levied for such purpose shall not be in excess of [fifty cents] one dollar on the one hundred dollars assessed valuation. The funds arising from the tax levied for such purpose shall be used for the purpose for which the tax was levied and none other.
2. Any funds of the hospital, whether derived from the tax authorized by this section or from the operation of the hospital, and whether collected before or after October 13, 1965, may be used for constructing and furnishing necessary additions to the hospital.
3. For any ballot proposal in which the maximum levy exceeds fifty cents per one hundred dollars of assessed valuation, the board of trustees shall publish in a newspaper or newspapers of general circulation and otherwise make available upon request a summary description of the board's plans for using the money for ongoing hospital operations.
206.060. 1. Each notice shall state briefly the purpose of the election, setting forth the question to be voted upon, form of ballot to be used and a description of the territory. The notice shall further state that any district upon its establishment shall have the powers, objects and purposes provided by this chapter, and shall have the power to levy a property tax not to exceed [fifty cents] one dollar on the one hundred dollars valuation.
2. For any ballot proposal in which the maximum levy exceeds fifty cents per one hundred dollars of assessed valuation, the board of directors shall publish in a newspaper or newspapers of general circulation and otherwise make available upon request a summary description of the board's plans for using the money for ongoing hospital operations.