Bill Text: IA SF2145 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the property tax exemption for dwelling units owned and managed by certain nonprofit organizations and including applicability provisions.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-31 - Subcommittee: Feenstra, Edler, and Hogg. S.J. 196. [SF2145 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF2145-Introduced.html

Senate File 2145 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  BERTRAND

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the property tax exemption for dwelling
  2    units owned and managed by certain nonprofit organizations
  3    and including applicability provisions.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 427.1, subsection 21A, Code 2018, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    21A.  Dwelling unit property owned by community housing
  1  4 development organization.  Dwelling unit property owned, and
  1  5  managed, or controlled by a community housing development
  1  6 organization, as recognized by the state of Iowa and the
  1  7 federal government pursuant to criteria for community housing
  1  8 development organization designation contained in the HOME
  1  9 program of the federal National Affordable Housing Act of 1990,
  1 10 if the organization is also a nonprofit organization exempt
  1 11 from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
  1 12 Revenue Code and owns and manages more than one hundred fifty
  1 13 dwelling units that are located in a city with a population of
  1 14 more than one hundred ten eighty thousand. For the 2005 and
  1 15 2006 assessment years beginning January 1, 2005, and January
  1 16 1, 2006, an application is not required to be filed to receive
  1 17 the exemption. For the 2007 assessment year beginning January
  1 18 1, 2007, and subsequent assessment years, an application for
  1 19 exemption must be filed with the assessing authority not later
  1 20 than February 1 of the assessment year for which the exemption
  1 21 is sought. Upon the filing and allowance of the claim, the
  1 22 claim shall be allowed on the property for successive years
  1 23 without further filing as long as the property continues to
  1 24 qualify for the exemption.
  1 25    Sec. 2.  IMPLEMENTATION.  Section 25B.7 shall not apply to
  1 26 this Act.
  1 27    Sec. 3.  APPLICABILITY.  This Act applies to assessment years
  1 28 beginning on or after January 1, 2019.
  1 29                           EXPLANATION
  1 30 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 31 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 32    Current law provides an exemption from property taxation
  1 33 for dwelling unit property owned and managed by a nonprofit
  1 34 community housing development organization if the organization
  1 35 owns and manages more than 150 dwelling units located in a city
  2  1 with a population of more than 110,000. This bill authorizes
  2  2 the property tax exemption for dwelling unit property if the
  2  3 property is owned, managed, or controlled by a community
  2  4 housing development organization, instead of requiring both
  2  5 ownership and management of the property.  The bill also lowers
  2  6 the city population criteria from 110,000 to 80,000.
  2  7    The bill makes inapplicable Code section 25B.7. Code
  2  8 section 25B.7 provides that for a property tax credit or
  2  9 exemption enacted on or after January 1, 1997, if a state
  2 10 appropriation made to fund the credit or exemption is not
  2 11 sufficient to fully fund the credit or exemption, the political
  2 12 subdivision shall be required to extend to the taxpayer only
  2 13 that portion of the credit or exemption estimated by the
  2 14 department of revenue to be funded by the state appropriation.
  2 15    This bill applies to assessment years beginning on or after
  2 16 January 1, 2019.
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