FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 280
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATORS YECKEL, ROHRBACH, HOUSE, WESTFALL, CHILDERS,
GIBBONS, SCHNEIDER, WIGGINS, KENNEY, STEELMAN, KLARICH, FOSTER,
BENTLEY, RUSSELL, GROSS, LOUDON, STOLL, KINDER AND DePASCO.
Read 1st time January 11, 2001, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
0495S.01I
AN ACT
To amend chapter 135, RSMo, relating to tax credits for contributions to unplanned pregnancy resource centers by adding thereto one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Chapter 135, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 135.630, to read as follows:
135.630. 1. As used in this section, the following terms shall mean:
(1) "Contribution", a donation of cash, stock, bonds or other marketable securities;
(2) "Director", the director of the department of social services;
(3) "State tax liability", in the case of a business taxpayer, any liability incurred by such taxpayer pursuant to the provisions of chapters 143, 147, 148 and 153, RSMo, excluding sections 143.191 to 143.265, RSMo, and related provisions, and in the case of an individual taxpayer, any liability incurred by such taxpayer pursuant to the provisions of chapter 143, RSMo, excluding sections 143.191 to 143.265, RSMo, and related provisions;
(4) "Taxpayer", a person, firm, a partner in a firm, corporation or a shareholder in an S corporation doing business in the state of Missouri and subject to the state income tax imposed by the provisions of chapter 143, RSMo, or a corporation subject to the annual corporation franchise tax imposed by the provisions of chapter 147, RSMo, or an insurance company paying an annual tax on its gross premium receipts in this state, or other financial institution paying taxes to the state of Missouri or any political subdivision of this state pursuant to the provisions of chapter 148, RSMo, or an express company which pays an annual tax on its gross receipts in this state pursuant to chapter 153, RSMo, or an individual subject to the state income tax imposed by the provisions of chapter 143, RSMo;
(5) "Unplanned pregnancy resource center", a nonresidential facility located in this state:
(a) Established and operating primarily to provide assistance to women with crisis pregnancies or unplanned pregnancies by offering pregnancy testing, counseling, emotional and material support, and other similar services to encourage and assist such women in carrying their pregnancies to term; and
(b) Where childbirths are not performed; and
(c) Which does not perform or refer for abortions and which does not hold itself out as performing or referring for abortions; and
(d) Which provides direct client services at the facility, as opposed to merely providing counseling or referral services by telephone; and
(e) Which provides its services at no cost; and
(f) Which is exempt from income taxation pursuant to the United States Internal Revenue Code.
2. A taxpayer shall be allowed to claim a tax credit against the taxpayer's state tax liability, in an amount equal to fifty percent of the amount such taxpayer contributed to an unplanned pregnancy resource center.
3. The amount of the tax credit claimed shall not exceed the amount of the taxpayer's state tax liability for the taxable year that the credit is claimed, and such taxpayer shall not be allowed to claim a tax credit in excess of fifty thousand dollars per taxable year. However, any tax credit that cannot be claimed in the taxable year the contribution was made may be carried over to the next four succeeding taxable years until the full credit has been claimed.
4. Except for any excess credit which is carried over pursuant to subsection 3 of this section, a taxpayer shall not be allowed to claim a tax credit unless the total amount of such taxpayer's contribution or contributions to an unplanned pregnancy resource center or centers in such taxpayer's taxable year has a value of at least one hundred dollars.
5. The director shall determine, at least annually, which facilities in this state may be classified as unplanned pregnancy resource centers. The director may require of a facility seeking to be classified as an unplanned pregnancy resource center whatever information which is reasonably necessary to make such a determination. The director shall classify a facility as an unplanned pregnancy resource center if such facility meets the definition set forth in subsection 1 of this section.
6. The director shall establish a procedure by which a taxpayer can determine if a facility has been classified as an unplanned pregnancy resource center. Unplanned pregnancy resource centers shall be permitted to decline a contribution from a taxpayer. The cumulative amount of tax credits which may be claimed by all the taxpayers contributing to unplanned pregnancy resource centers in any one fiscal year shall not exceed two million dollars. Tax credits shall be issued in the order contributions are received.
7. The director shall establish a procedure by which, from the beginning of the fiscal year until some point in time later in the fiscal year to be determined by the director, the cumulative amount of tax credits are equally apportioned among all facilities classified as unplanned pregnancy resource centers. If an unplanned pregnancy resource center fails to use all, or some percentage to be determined by the director, of its apportioned tax credits during this predetermined period of time, the director may reapportion these unused tax credits to those unplanned pregnancy resource centers that have used all, or some percentage to be determined by the director, of their apportioned tax credits during this predetermined period of time. The director may establish more than one period of time and reapportion more than once during each fiscal year. To the maximum extent possible, the director shall establish the procedure described in this subsection in such a manner as to ensure that taxpayers can claim all the tax credits possible up to the cumulative amount of tax credits available for the fiscal year.
8. Each unplanned pregnancy resource center shall provide information to the director concerning the identity of each taxpayer making a contribution to the unplanned pregnancy resource center who is claiming a tax credit pursuant to this section and the amount of the contribution. The director shall provide the information to the director of revenue. The director shall be subject to the confidentiality and penalty provisions of section 32.057, RSMo, relating to the disclosure of tax information.
9. This section shall apply to all tax years beginning after December 31, 2001.