Delaware House Bill 223 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: Introduced on December 10 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-12-10 - Introduced and Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This bill changes the program for distributing payments to cities with tax-exempt properties owned by the State. Instead of directing payments only to county seats (Wilmington, Dover, and Georgetown), the bill will authorize payments as well to any city with a population over 25,000 and more than 20% tax exempt property. It also raises the annual cap on the amount distributed by $500,000 and adjusts the formula under which these distributions are made. This bill improves the formulas to enable the elimination of specific dollar earmarks, and to enable all of our state higher education institutions to be treated equally in this section. The bill is designed to ensure a slight dollar increase to each of the three county seats, while initially adding Newark to the program, at a much lower benefit level than the other three cities.

An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Compensatory Payments For Certain Exempt Properties Owned By The State.

Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]	Sen. David Sokola [D]	Rep. John Kowalko [D]	Rep. Edward Osienski [D]
Sen. Bethany Hall-Long [D]	Sen. Robert Marshall [D]	Sen. Karen Peterson [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-12-10	House	Introduced and Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis148.nsf/2bede841c6272c888025698400433a04/6850e5b27918f86085257f100052389f?OpenDocument
Text	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis148.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+223/$file/legis.html?open