SCS/HCS/HB 795 - This act authorizes Perry County to impose, upon voter approval, a sales tax of up to one-fourth of 1% to equally fund senior services and youth programs. A senior services tax commission must be established to administer the revenue received for senior services. This act contains ballot language and a procedure to repeal the tax. After approval, the county shall enter into an agreement with the Department of Revenue to collect the tax.
This act allows cities, towns, and villages within Clay County, Franklin County, Boone County, Jasper County or Jackson County, to form a Theater, Cultural Arts, and Entertainment District. Such counties and St. Charles County may also form such a district. Counties, cities, towns, and villages that adopt transect-based zoning may also form such districts. Currently, only municipalities in St. Charles are allowed to form such a district.
This act requires a Theater, Cultural Arts, and Entertainment District to be a minimum of 25 contiguous acres in size, rather than 50 acres. This act requires the governing body of the city or county in which a district is proposed to pass a resolution describing the district when a petition for its creation is filed. It specifies that a district may be created to fund and provide infrastructure.
This act states that if there is a conflict between the zoning or subdivision ordinances of a municipality that are based upon transect-based zoning and the provisions of any ordinance of another political subdivision with respect to street configuration, the municipality's ordinances shall prevail.
This act allows the cities of Augusta, Carrollton, Chillicothe, Liberty, Miami, Missouri City, and Pleasant Hill to impose a transient guest tax of up to 5%.
This act allows the City of Sullivan and the portion of the Sullivan C-2 School District located in Franklin County to levy a transient guest tax on charges for sleeping rooms paid by guests of hotels, motels, bed and breakfast inns and campgrounds or docking facilities. The proposed tax must be submitted to the voters and shall not be less than two percent or greater than five percent per occupied room per night.
This act allows the City of St. Louis to put before the voters a ballot measure to allows the city to impose a sales tax, not to exceed one-half of one percent, solely for the purpose of providing revenues for the operation of public safety departments.
This act allows Kansas City to establish, by order or ordinance, an administrative adjudication system for adjudicating parking and other civil, nonmoving municipal code violations. Currently, the City of St. Louis may establish such a system.
This act modifies the length of term for directors of public water supply districts elected in 2008, 2009, and 2010, due to a change in the date of their election from June to April in statute.
This act specifies that in Pulaski County, for the purpose of collecting a transient guest tax, the term "transient guest" means a person who occupies a room in a hotel or motel for 90 days or less during any calendar quarter.
This act is similar to SB 81 (2007), SB 624 (2007), SB 237 (2007), SB 419 (2007), SS/SCS/SB 22 (2007), SS/SCS/HB 69 (2007), CCS/SB 233 (2007), CCS/HCS/SB 30 (2007), HCS/HB 1089 (2007), HCS/HB 234 (2007), & SS/HB 205 (2007), HCS/HB 919 (2007), SB 1212 (2006), SB 624 (2007) SCS/SB 237 (2007), HB 161 (2007), SB 391 (2007), HB 634 (2007), SB 574 (2007) HCS/HB 406 (2007), & CCS/HCS/SS/SCS/SB 429 (2007) & HB 603 (2007).
SUSAN HENDERSON MOORE