Indiana House Bill 1213 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-01-09 - First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means
Pending: House Ways and Means Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Allows the county council of Starke County to adopt an ordinance imposing an additional county economic development income tax (CEDIT) rate for the purposes of: (1) financing, constructing, acquiring, and equipping the county jail and related buildings and parking facilities; and (2) operating or maintaining those facilities. Authorizes bonds to be issued or leases to be entered into for constructing, acquiring, and equipping the county jail and related buildings and parking facilities. Specifies that the additional tax rate may not exceed the lesser of: (1) 0.65%; or (2) the tax rate that is necessary to pay the costs of financing, acquiring, and equipping the county jail and related buildings and parking facilities and (if the county council makes a determination to use the tax revenue for this purpose) to provide sufficient annual revenues to operate and maintain those facilities. Changes certain population parameters in the CEDIT statutes to reflect the new population counts determined under the 2010 decennial census.

Starke County CEDIT for jail.

Rep. Nancy Dembowski [D]

Rep. Thomas Dermody [R]

Rep. Doug Gutwein [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-01-09		First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means
2012-01-09		Coauthored by Representatives Dermody and Dembowski
2012-01-09		Authored by Representative Gutwein

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2012&session=1&request=getBill&doctype=HB&docno=1213
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/IN/IN1213.1.html