SCS/SB 713 - This act authorizes any public library district, except for library districts located within Adair, Audrain, Clark, Clay, Knox, Lewis, Marion, Monroe, Pike, Putnam, Ralls, Schuyler, Scotland, or Shelby Counties, to seek voter approval for a sales tax of not more than one half of one cent to fund the operation and maintenance of libraries within the boundaries of such library district. Public library districts are defined as any city library district, county library district, city-county library district, municipal library district, consolidated library district or urban library district. The act also provides that state appropriations to public library districts will not be affected by voluntary reductions in property tax levies, resulting from the enactment of a district sales tax, provided the proceeds from such sales tax equal or exceed the amount of the reduction in property tax revenue.JASON ZAMKUS