Bills › 88th General Assembly
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 16, 2020
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 17, 2020
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
Code chapter 422D authorizes counties to impose a property tax levy, an income surtax, or a combination of both taxes within the county, excluding those areas within a benefited emergency medical services district under Code chapter 357F, to be used for emergency medical services, if the taxes are approved at election. Code chapter 422D currently provides that imposition of the taxes or combination of taxes is for a maximum period of five years. This bill removes the five-year limitation and provides that discontinuance of the county’s authority to impose the taxes is required to be by petition of eligible electors and election.
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The bill also specifies that a county may not impose the taxes for any fiscal year or tax year, as applicable, beginning after the election approving the discontinuance of authority unless subsequently again approved at election. The bill does not affect the imposition and collection of taxes under Code chapter 422D in effect on July 1, 2020, and such taxes shall continue to be imposed and administered until the period of authority to impose such taxes in effect immediately prior to July 1, 2020, expires.
House subcommittee
Named January 17, 2020. It hasn’t reported yet.
- Rep. Phil Thompson R
- Rep. Jane Bloomingdale REmail
- Rep. Bobby Kaufmann REmail
- Rep. Amy Nielsen DEmail
- Rep. Sharon S. Steckman D
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