Bill Text: IN HB1058 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Adoption of budget for reorganized school.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2012-03-06 - Signed by the Governor [HB1058 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2012-HB1058-Amended.html
Citations Affected: IC 36-1.5.
Synopsis: Adoption of budget for reorganized school. Permits two or
more school corporations to publish notices, hold public hearings, and
take final action for the adoption of property tax levies, property tax
rates, and a budget for the reorganized school corporation after the
voters approve a plan of reorganization in a general election. Provides
that a conversion charter school must publish its estimated annual
budget for the ensuing year.
Effective: July 1, 2012.
January 9, 2012, read first time and referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory
Reform.
January 13, 2012, reported _ Do Pass.
January 25, 2012, read second time, amended, ordered engrossed.
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A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
taxation.
(1) subject to subsection (b), the fiscal bodies of the reorganizing political subdivisions shall, in the manner provided by IC 6-1.1-17, adopt tax levies, tax rates, and a budget for the reorganized political subdivision either through the adoption of substantially identical resolutions adopted by each of the fiscal bodies or, if authorized in the plan of reorganization, through a joint board established under an agreement of the fiscal bodies on which the members of each of the fiscal bodies are represented; and
(2) if the reorganized political subdivision will have elected offices and different election districts than any of the reorganizing political subdivisions, the legislative bodies of the reorganizing political subdivisions shall establish the election districts either
through the adoption of substantially identical resolutions adopted
by each of the legislative bodies or, if authorized in the plan of
reorganization, through a joint board established under an
agreement of the legislative bodies on which the members of each
of the legislative bodies are represented.
(b) This subsection applies to two (2) or more school
corporations that participate in a reorganization in which the
voters approve a plan of reorganization in a general election and
the plan of reorganization provides for the reorganization to
become effective for property taxes first due and payable in the
immediately following calendar year. The participating school
corporations may publish notices, hold public hearings, and take
final action for the adoption of property tax levies, property tax
rates, and a budget for the reorganized school corporation after
the voters approve the plan of reorganization. The alternative
schedule must comply with the following:
(1) Each participating school corporation shall give notice by
publication to taxpayers of:
(A) the estimated budget;
(B) the estimated maximum permissible levy;
(C) the current and proposed tax levies of each fund; and
(D) the amounts of excessive levy appeals to be requested;
for the ensuing year. The notice must be published twice in
accordance with IC 5-3-1 with the first publication at least ten
(10) days before the date fixed for the public hearing and with
the last publication not later than November 24 of the year the
public question is approved by the voters.
(2) Each participating school corporation must conduct a
public hearing on the proposed tax levies, tax rates, and
budget at least ten (10) days before the date the participating
school corporation adopts the proposed tax levies, tax rates,
and budget.
(3) The governing body of each participating school
corporation must meet to fix the tax levies, tax rates, and
budget for the ensuing year before December 6 of the year the
public question is approved by the voters.
(4) The county auditor shall certify the adopted property tax
levies, property tax rates, and budget for the reorganized
school corporation to the department of local government
finance before December 8 in the year in which the public
question is approved by the voters.
The department of local government finance may adjust any other
applicable time limit specified in IC 6-1.1-17 to be consistent with
this section. However, the department of local government finance
is expressly directed to complete the duties assigned to it under
IC 6-1.1-17-16 with respect to the submitted property tax levies,
property tax rates, and budget not later than February 15 in the
ensuing year.
(c) If a school is converted into a charter school under
IC 20-24-11, the charter school must, before December 1 of each
year, publish its estimated annual budget for the ensuing year in
accordance with IC 5-3-1.
