FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 590
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR SHIELDS.
Read 1st time February 26, 2003, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
1564S.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 67.990, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to tax levy for services to the elderly.
Section A. Section 67.990, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 67.990, to read as follows:
67.990. 1. The governing body of any county or city not within a county may, upon approval of a majority of the qualified voters of such county or city voting thereon, levy and collect a tax not to exceed [five] ten cents per one hundred dollars of assessed valuation upon all taxable property within the county or city or for the purpose of providing services to persons sixty years of age or older. The tax so levied shall be collected along with other county or city taxes, in the manner provided by law. All funds collected for this purpose shall be deposited in a special fund for the provision of services for persons sixty years of age or older, and shall be used for no other purpose except those purposes authorized in sections 67.990 to 67.995. Deposits in the fund shall be expended only upon approval of the board of directors established in section 67.993 and only in accordance with the fund budget approved by the county or city governing body.
2. The question of whether the tax authorized by this section shall be imposed shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
OFFICIAL BALLOT
Shall ............................... (name of county/city) levy a tax of ........... cents per each one hundred dollars assessed valuation for the purpose of providing services to persons sixty years of age or older?
YES NO