Bill Text: IN HB1304 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Funding public safety answering points.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-14 - First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means [HB1304 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2013-HB1304-Introduced.html
Citations Affected: IC 6-1.1-18.5-22; IC 6-3.5-7-29.
Synopsis: Funding public safety answering points. Authorizes the
fiscal bodies of a county and another political subdivision that are
parties to a contract under which the county has assumed the
responsibility of operating a public safety answering point to jointly
petition the department of local government finance to adjust the
maximum permissible ad valorem property tax levies of the respective
units. Provides that in a county that operates a public safety answering
point, an additional county economic development income tax rate of
0.1% may be imposed to pay expenses incurred by the county to
operate the public safety answering point.
Effective: July 1, 2013.
January 14, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means.
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(b) The fiscal bodies of a county and another political subdivision that are parties to a contract described in subsection (a) may jointly petition the department of local government finance to adjust the maximum permissible ad valorem property tax levies for the ensuing calendar year of the petitioning units as follows:
(1) To increase the county's maximum permissible ad valorem property tax levy for the ensuing calendar year by the amount levied in the preceding calendar year by the petitioning political subdivision to pay expenses incurred to operate the public safety answering point.
(2) To decrease the maximum permissible ad valorem
property tax levy for the ensuing calendar year of the
petitioning political subdivision by the amount that the
petitioning political subdivision levied in the preceding
calendar year to pay expenses incurred to operate the public
safety answering point.
(1) the county income tax council, if the county option income tax is in effect in the county; or
(2) the county council, if:
(A) the county adjusted gross income tax is in effect in the county; or
(B) neither the county option income tax nor the county adjusted gross income tax is in effect in the county;
may adopt an ordinance imposing a county economic development income tax rate of one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) on the adjusted gross income of resident county taxpayers of the county. Tax revenue attributable to the tax rate imposed under this subsection must be used to pay expenses incurred by the county to operate the public safety answering point.
(b) A county economic development income tax rate imposed under subsection (a) is in addition to:
(1) any other tax rate imposed under this chapter; and
(2) a tax rate imposed for public safety under IC 6-3.5-1.1-25 or IC 6-3.5-6-31.
(c) For purposes of computing the maximum county economic development income tax rate that may be imposed in a county under section 5 of this chapter, a county's county economic development income tax rate for a particular year does not include a tax rate imposed under subsection (a).
(d) For purposes of computing the maximum combined income tax rate that may be imposed in a county under IC 6-3.5-1.1, IC 6-3.5-6, and this chapter, a county's county economic development income tax rate for a particular year does not include a tax rate imposed under subsection (a).
