Read 1st time January 12, 2000 and 1000 copies ordered printed. ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 135.530, RSMo Supp. 1999, relating to tax relief in distressed communities, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 135.530, RSMo Supp. 1999, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 135.530, to read as follows:
135.530. For the purposes of sections 100.010, 100.710 and 100.850, RSMo, sections 135.110, 135.200, 135.258,
135.313, 135.403, 135.405, 135.503, 135.530 and 135.545, section 215.030, RSMo, sections 348.300 and 348.302,
RSMo, and sections 620.1400 to 620.1460, RSMo, "distressed community" means either a Missouri municipality within a
metropolitan statistical area which has a median household income of under seventy percent of the median household
income for the metropolitan statistical area, according to the last decennial census, or a United States census block group
or contiguous group of block groups within a metropolitan statistical area which has a population of at least two thousand
five hundred, and each block group having a median household income of under seventy percent of the median household
income for the metropolitan area in Missouri, according to the last decennial census. In addition the definition shall
include municipalities not in a metropolitan statistical area, with a median household income of under seventy percent of
the median household income for [the nonmetropolitan] all areas in Missouri according to the last decennial census or a
census block group or contiguous group of block groups which has a population of at least two thousand five hundred
each block group having a median household income of under seventy percent of the median household income for the
nonmetropolitan areas of Missouri, according to the last decennial census.
Missouri House of Representatives