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Allowing cities to impose a tax to fund a public library
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 12, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 21, 2024
- 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 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Cities can no longer use certain special taxes to fund public libraries, but they can instead include that money in their general fund. If a city wants to use a specific tax for a library, the city council must first get approval from voters during a regular election. Once voters approve the tax, it lasts for 10 years unless they vote to extend it or the city council votes to stop it.1
Read the official explanation
12 (additional taxes) to eliminate several taxes a city may levy subject to voter approval at an election.1(3)(b)(2), which allows cities to levy the same amounts the eliminated taxes could have levied as a part of the cities’ general fund levy. One levy that was eliminated by HF 718 was a levy to support a public library up to a maximum amount of 27 cents per $1,000 of assessed value. This bill allows cities to impose a tax for the support of a public library in an amount not to exceed the amount levied by the city in FY 2022-2023 for the same purpose. The bill requires, prior to imposing a tax for the support of a public library, for a city council to submit the question to voters at a regular city election of whether to impose the tax, and a majority of voters approve the levy. The bill limits the validity of a tax in support of a public library to a period of 10 years from the date the tax is approved by voters at a regular city election. The tax may be extended for additional 10-year periods if reauthorized by the voters at election. A city council may discontinue the tax by a majority vote of the city council.
House subcommittee
Named February 21, 2024. On February 27, 2024 it recommended indefinite postponement. Vote Total: 2-0.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
16 written public comments to its subcommittee: February 27, 2024 (16) · on the Legislature’s site
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- HF 294 Allowing certain cities to certify taxes for general fund levy for libraries91st General Assembly · In committeeNearly identical
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