HCS SB 893 -- FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT TAXES

SPONSOR:  Scott (Emery)

COMMITTEE ACTION:  Voted "do pass by consent" by the Committee on
Local Government by a vote of 13 to 0.

This substitute prohibits an ambulance or fire protection
district from reducing the rate of the district's sales tax.
Currently, the county collector is prohibited from reducing the
district's sales tax.

Any city, town, village, county, or fire protection district in
St. Louis County that has implemented an ambulance or fire
protection district sales tax is authorized to use those funds
for expenditures on equipment and services, excluding salaries,
wages, and benefits, by any city, town, village, county, or fire
protection district which contracts with a joint central fire and
emergency dispatching service.

FISCAL NOTE:  No impact on state funds in FY 2007, FY 2008, and
FY 2009.

PROPONENTS:  Supporters say that the bill corrects an error in
terminology because the taxing authority reduces taxes not the
collector.

Testifying for the bill was Senator Scott.

OPPONENTS:  There was no opposition voiced to the committee.

Julie Jinkens McNitt, Legislative Analyst

Missouri House of Representatives
93rd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session
Last Updated November 29, 2006 at 9:46 am