Bill Text: PA HB1486 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for adoption of further referendum.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 11-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-09 - Referred to FINANCE [HB1486 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB1486-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1790
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1486 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY SAYLOR, CARROLL, FARRY, GEIST, GILLESPIE, GINGRICH, GROVE, MILLARD, MILLER, MURT, PERRY, TALLMAN AND YOUNGBLOOD, MAY 9, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, MAY 9, 2011
AN ACT
Amending the act of June 27, 2006 (1st Sp.Sess., P.L.1873,
No.1), entitled "An act providing for taxation by school
districts, for the State funds formula, for tax relief in
first class cities, for school district choice and voter
participation, for other school district options and for a
task force on school cost reduction; making an appropriation;
prohibiting prior authorized taxation; providing for
installment payment of taxes; restricting the power of
certain school districts to levy, assess and collect taxes;
and making related repeals," further providing for adoption
of further referendum.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 332(c) of the act of June 27, 2006 (1st
Sp.Sess., P.L.1873, No.1), known as the Taxpayer Relief Act, is
amended and the section is amended by adding a subsection to
read:
Section 332. Adoption of further referendum.
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(b.1) 2011 municipal election in certain third class
counties.--A board of school directors in a county of the third
class with a city of the third class having a population between
40,000 and 41,000 as determined by the Bureau of the United
States Census in the Department of Commerce in the 2000 Census
shall submit a referendum question pursuant to subsection (b) to
the electorate of the school district at the municipal election
of 2011. The proposed tax rate shall be established by the board
of school directors of the school district and shall equal the
rate required to provide an exclusion for homestead property and
farmstead property equal to the maximum exclusion under 53
Pa.C.S. § 8586 (relating to limitations). Subsections (a)(2),
(d), (e), (g), (h) and (i) shall apply to a referendum question
held pursuant to this subsection. No school district shall seek
to impose a tax pursuant to this subsection that is authorized
under section 321(b).
(c) Proposed tax rate.--The proposed rate of the earned
income and net profits tax or personal income tax shall be
established by the board of school directors of the school
district and shall not exceed the rate, when combined with the
tax rate authorized under section 331.2, required to provide an
exclusion for homestead property and farmstead property equal to
the maximum exclusion under 53 Pa.C.S. § 8586 [(relating to
limitations)].
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Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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