FIRST REGULAR SESSION
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES CRAWFORD, SUTHERLAND, BEARDEN,
SHOEMYER (9) (Co-sponsors) AND WARD.
Pre-filed January 3, 2003, and copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 137, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to assessment of real property.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
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, 2004, in all counties and in all cities not within a county, a percentage of one-half of one percent, not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars in any calendar year, of all ad valorem property tax collections allocable to each taxing authority 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. Each county or city 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 or city 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 or city general revenue contributions to the assessment fund.