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Latest Action: 05/16/2008 - Referred: Ways and Means (H)

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HB 2573 - PROPERTY TAX INCREASE LIMITATIONS - Parkinson, Mark A.

Exempts personal and residential property owned by certain taxpayers 65 years of age or older from increases in assessed valuation and limits increases in their personal and property tax
Latest Action: 05/16/2008 - Referred: Ways and Means (H)

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HB 2532 - COUNTY ASSESSMENT FUNDS - Cooper, Robert Wayne

Changes the requirement determining which counties must withhold 1% of all property taxes to be deposited into the county's assessment fund
Latest Action: 04/30/2008 - Public Hearing Completed (H)

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HB 2480 - COUNTY HEALTH CENTER SALES TAX - Harris, Belinda

Authorizes Jefferson County, upon voter approval, to impose a retail sales tax to fund public health and safety projects and programs of the county public health center
Latest Action: 05/16/2008 - Referred: Special Committee on Government Affairs (H)

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HB 2439 - PROPERTY TAX STATEMENTS - Silvey, Ryan

Prohibits penalties and interest from being charged on a real property tax bill when there is clear and convincing evidence that the county made an error or omission in determining the taxes
Latest Action: 04/10/2008 - Public Hearing Completed (H)

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HB 2417 - REAL PROPERTY TAXATION - St. Onge, Neal C.

Allows disabled individuals or individuals 60 years of age or older to defer paying property taxes on their residences under certain conditions
Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Executive Session Completed (H)

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HB 2396 - SPECIAL ROAD ROCK FUND - Munzlinger, Brian

Increases the rate certain counties are authorized to impose on agricultural and horticultural property for a special road rock fund tax
Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Executive Session Completed (H)

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HB 2347 - PROPERTY TAX ON HANDICAP VEHICLES - Schneider, Vicki

Lowers the assessment percentage for personal property taxation purposes on vehicles necessary for transporting physically disabled individuals from 33.3% to 12%
Latest Action: 03/03/2008 - Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

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SB 1285 - Effective January 1, 2009, for all charter counties and the City of St. Louis, assessors are required to provide the city or county clerks with assessment books on or before March first of each year. The city or county clerks must make abstracts of the assessment books showing the aggregate amounts of different types of property and the valuations of each type for each political subdivision levying taxes on property. The governing bodies of political subdivisions must use the information provided in the abstracts to informally project non-binding tax rate levies and provide such projected levies to the clerk no later than April 15th of each year. Utilizing the projected tax levies, the county collector must then calculate the projected tax liability for each property for which the assessor intends to provide a notice of increased assessed value by April thirtieth. Failure by a political subdivision to provide projected tax levies by April 15th will result in a twenty percent reduction [...]

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Latest Action: 03/03/2008 - Second Read and Referred S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee

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SB 1276 - Under current law, municipalities located within counties subject to the authority of the East-West Gateway Council of Governments, except those located in Franklin County, are required to create a county-wide TIF commission for the approval of tax increment finance projects. This act removes reference to the East-West Gateway Council of Governments and specifically requires municipalities located within the counties of Jefferson, St. Louis and St. Charles to create county-wide TIF commissions for approval of projects. The act provides membership requirements similar to those provided under current law, as well as a time-line for public hearings on projects and determinations of the commission. Failure of the county-wide TIF commission to make a determination on any given project within the time provided within the act will result in the commission being deemed to have made a recommendation in opposition to such project. The act repeals a doubly-enacted version of Section 99.[...]

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Latest Action: 04/17/2008 - Hearing Scheduled S Commerce, Energy and the Environment Committee

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SB 1253 - This act creates the County Taxpayer Protection Act. County collectors or collector treasurers must be custodians of all individual property tax records. Requests for individual property tax records must be made in writing and disclose vested interests in such records. The act prohibits the use of individual property tax records for commercial purposes. Any person, organization or entity which uses individual property tax records for commercial purposes will be subject to a two thousand dollar penalty for each individual county tax record transferred, given or used for commercial purposes.

JASON ZAMKUS