HOUSE BILL NO. 1271 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE WELLENKAMP.
2729H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT To repeal section 67.1754, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to county sales taxes for park purposes.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 67.1754, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu 2 thereof, to be known as section 67.1754, to read as follows: 67.1754. 1. The sales tax authorized in sections 67.1712 to 67.1721 shall be collected 2 and allocated as follows: 3 (1) Fifty percent of the sales taxes collected from each county shall be deposited in 4 the metropolitan park and recreational fund to be administered by the board of directors of the 5 district to pay costs associated with the establishment, administration, operation and 6 maintenance of public recreational facilities, parks, and public recreational grounds 7 associated with the district. Costs for office administration beginning in the second fiscal 8 year of district operations may be up to but shall not exceed fifteen percent of the amount 9 deposited pursuant to this subdivision; 10 (2) Fifty percent of the sales taxes collected from each county shall be returned to the 11 source county for park purposes, which may include storm water management projects in 12 such county that are confined to the deployment and augmentation of natural 13 infrastructure or features that would otherwise add to or not take away from the 14 benefits of the park to the community, except that forty percent of such fifty percent 15 amount shall be reserved for distribution to municipalities within the county in the form of 16 grant revenue-sharing funds. Each county in the district shall establish its own process for 17 awarding the grant proceeds to its municipalities for park purposes provided the purposes of
EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language. HB 1271 2
18 such grants are consistent with the purpose of the district. In the case of a county of the first 19 classification with a charter form of government having a population of at least nine hundred 20 thousand inhabitants, such grant proceeds shall be awarded to municipalities by a municipal 21 grant commission as described in section 67.1757; in such county, notwithstanding other 22 provisions to the contrary, the grant proceeds may be used to fund any recreation program or 23 park improvement serving municipal residents and for such other purposes as set forth in 24 section 67.1757. 25 2. The sales tax authorized under subsection 2 of section 67.1712 shall be collected 26 and allocated as follows: 27 (1) Sixty percent of the sales taxes collected from all counties shall be deposited in a 28 separate metropolitan park and recreational fund to be administered by the board of directors 29 of the metropolitan district to pay costs associated with the administration, operation, and 30 maintenance of public recreational facilities, parks, and public recreational grounds 31 associated with the metropolitan district. Of this amount: 32 (a) For a period ending twenty years after the issuance of any bonds issued for the 33 purpose of improving and maintaining the Gateway Arch grounds, but no later than twenty- 34 three years after the effective date of the incremental sales tax as approved by voter initiative 35 under subsection 2 of section 67.1715: 36 a. Fifty percent shall be apportioned to accessibility, safety, improvement, and 37 maintenance of the Gateway Arch grounds; and 38 b. Fifty percent shall be apportioned to accessibility, safety, improvement, and 39 maintenance of park projects other than the Gateway Arch grounds; 40 (b) After the period described in paragraph (a) of this subdivision: 41 a. Twenty percent shall be apportioned to accessibility, safety, improvement, and 42 maintenance of the Gateway Arch grounds; and 43 b. Eighty percent shall be apportioned to accessibility, safety, improvement, and 44 maintenance of park projects other than the Gateway Arch grounds; 45 (c) Costs for office administration beginning in the second fiscal year of collection 46 and allocation may be up to but shall not exceed fifteen percent of the amount deposited under 47 this subdivision; 48 (2) Forty percent of the sales taxes collected from each county shall be returned to the 49 source county for park purposes, except that forty percent of the amount allocated to each 50 source county shall be reserved for distribution to municipalities within the county in the form 51 of grant-sharing funds. Each county in the metropolitan district shall establish its own 52 process for awarding the grant proceeds to its municipalities for park purposes, provided the 53 purposes of such grants are consistent with the purpose of the metropolitan district. In the 54 case of any county with a charter form of government and with more than nine hundred fifty HB 1271 3
55 thousand inhabitants, such grant proceeds shall be awarded to municipalities by a municipal 56 grant commission as described in section 67.1757, and in such county, notwithstanding any 57 other provision of law to the contrary, such grant proceeds may be used to fund any recreation 58 program or park improvement serving municipal residents and for such other purposes as set 59 forth in section 67.1757. 60 3. At a general election occurring not less than six months before the expiration of 61 twenty years after issuance of any bonds issued for the purpose of improving and maintaining 62 the Gateway Arch grounds, but no later than twenty-three years after the effective date of the 63 incremental sales tax as approved by voter initiative under subsection 2 of section 67.1715, 64 the governing body of any county within the metropolitan district whose voters approved 65 such incremental tax shall submit to its voters a proposal to reauthorize such tax after the 66 expiration of such period. The form of the question shall be determined by the metropolitan 67 district. Such reauthorization shall become effective only after a majority of the voters of 68 each such county who vote on such reauthorization approve the reauthorization. ✔
Statutes affected: