Bill Text: IN HB1114 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Soil productivity factors.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-28 - Representative Lehe added as coauthor [HB1114 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2013-HB1114-Introduced.html

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Introduced Version

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HOUSE BILL No. 1114

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL

Citations Affected: IC 6-1.1-4-13.

Synopsis: Soil productivity factors. Specifies that the soil productivity factors used for the March 1, 2011, assessment of agricultural land must continue to be used for subsequent assessment dates. Requires the department of local government finance to submit the following in 2013 to the commission on state tax and financing policy and to any interim study committee established to study agriculture issues or assigned the topic of studying agriculture issues: (1) Proposed soil productivity factors to be used in the assessment of agricultural land. (2) An explanation of the methodology used to determine the proposed soil productivity factors. (3) Data, from each county, that was used to determine the proposed soil productivity factors. (4) Testimony and comments provided to the department of local government finance by taxpayers and other stakeholders concerning the proposed soil productivity factors.

Effective: Upon passage; January 1, 2013 (retroactive).

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Cherry, Thompson

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    January 8, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means.

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Introduced

First Regular Session 118th General Assembly (2013)

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HOUSE BILL No. 1114

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    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning taxation.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 6-1.1-4-13; (13)IN1114.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 6-1.1-4-13, AS AMENDED BY P.L.112-2012, SECTION 9, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2013 (RETROACTIVE)]: Sec. 13. (a) In assessing or reassessing land, the land shall be assessed as agricultural land only when it is devoted to agricultural use.
    (b) The department of local government finance shall give written notice to each county assessor of:
        (1) the availability of the United States Department of Agriculture's soil survey data; and
        (2) as approved by the School of Agriculture of Purdue University, the appropriate soil productivity factor for each type or classification of soil, shown on as those soil productivity factors relate to the United States Department of Agriculture's soil survey map.
All assessing officials and the property tax assessment board of appeals shall use the data in determining the true tax value of agricultural land. However, notwithstanding the availability of new soil productivity

factors and the department of local government finance's notice of the appropriate soil productivity factor for each type or classification of soil shown on the United States Department of Agriculture's soil survey map for the March 1, 2012, assessment date, the soil productivity factors used for the March 1, 2011, assessment date shall be used for the March 1, 2012, assessment date, New soil productivity factors shall be used for assessment dates occurring after March 1, 2012. and those soil productivity factors may not be changed by rule of the department of local government finance unless the general assembly enacts a law authorizing such a rule.
    (c) The department of local government finance shall by rule provide for the method for determining the true tax value of each parcel of agricultural land.
    (d) This section does not apply to land purchased for industrial, commercial, or residential uses.

SOURCE: ; (13)IN1114.1.2. -->     SECTION 2. [EFFECTIVE UPON PASSAGE] (a) The department of local government finance shall before November 1, 2013, submit the following to the commission on state tax and financing policy and to any interim study committee established to study agriculture issues or assigned the topic of studying agriculture issues:
        (1) Proposed soil productivity factors to be used in the assessment of agricultural land under IC 6-1.1-4-13.
        (2) An explanation of the methodology used to determine the proposed soil productivity factors.
        (3) Data, from each county, used to determine the proposed soil productivity factors.
        (4) Evidence of oral testimony and written comments provided to the department of local government finance by taxpayers and other stakeholders concerning the proposed soil productivity factors.
    (b) This SECTION expires July 1, 2014.

SOURCE: ; (13)IN1114.1.3. -->     SECTION 3. An emergency is declared for this act.