HCS SB 893 -- FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT TAXES This bill 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 and which contracts with a joint central fire and emergency dispatching service is authorized to use those funds for expenditures on equipment and services, excluding salaries, wages, and benefits.Copyright (c) Missouri House of Representatives