FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 611

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES WIGGINS, SHOEMYER, BERKSTRESSER,

CRUMP, ROBIRDS, HARTZLER, LUETKENHAUS, COPENHAVER, KING AND WARD.

Read 1^st time January 31, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

1500L.01I

AN ACT

To amend chapter 137, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to assessment of real property.

Section A. Chapter 137, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 137.727, to read as follows:

137.727. Beginning January 1, 2002, in all counties and in all cities not within a county, a percentage of all ad valorem property tax collections allocable to each taxing authority within the county and the county shall be deducted from the collections of taxes each year and shall be deposited into the assessment fund of the county as required pursuant to section 137.750. The percentage shall be one-fifth of one percent for counties of the first classification and for any city not within a county. For counties of the second, third and fourth classification the percentage deducted shall be one-half of one percent. The county shall bill any taxing authority collecting its own taxes. Moneys deposited into the assessment fund pursuant to this section shall be expended solely for computer hardware and software including installation and maintenance agreements, salaries and benefits or contracted services for data entry personnel and data conversion, aerial photography, digitized mapping projects including maintenance or installation and maintenance of a geographic information system program, and, any new technological development that may occur and assist in the assessment of all property, as approved by the county governing body and in compliance with the state tax commission's approved assessment and equalization maintenance plan. These moneys shall not be used to reduce county general revenue contributions to the assessment fund.

Missouri House of Representatives