Bill Text: IN HB1352 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Limitation on levy for township assistance.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-17 - Representative Torr added as coauthor [HB1352 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2012-HB1352-Introduced.html

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Introduced Version

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HOUSE BILL No. 1352

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL

Citations Affected: IC 6-1.1-18-1.5.

Synopsis: Limitation on levy for township assistance. Provides that the part of the total township tax rate that is not related to providing fire protection services or paying bonds, loans, and leases related to fire protection services may not exceed 5% of the total tax rate imposed for the year on a person's property within a taxing district.

Effective: Upon passage.

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Candelaria Reardon

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    January 10, 2012, read first time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means.

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Introduced

Second Regular Session 117th General Assembly (2012)

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HOUSE BILL No. 1352

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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 6-1.1-18-1.5; (12)IN1352.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 6-1.1-18-1.5 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE UPON PASSAGE]: Sec. 1.5. (a) This section applies if a city or town in a township does not provide fire protection services.
    (b) Each township executive shall, not later than fifteen (15) days after the township's tax rate is determined under IC 6-1.1-17, certify to the department of local government finance and to the county auditor:
        (1) the part of the total township tax rate that is related to:
            (A) providing fire protection services; or
            (B) paying bonds, loans, and leases related to fire protection services; and
        (2) the part of the total township tax rate that is not related to:
            (A) providing fire protection services; or

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            (B) paying bonds, loans, and leases related to fire protection services.
    (c) The department of local government finance shall before July 1, 2012, issue guidelines that must be used in making determinations under subsection (b).
    (d) Notwithstanding any other law, for property taxes first due and payable in 2013 and in each year thereafter, the part of the total township tax rate described in subsection (b)(2) (before the application of any credit under IC 6-1.1-20.6) that is imposed for the year on a person's property within a taxing district may not exceed five percent (5%) of the total tax rate (before the application of any credit under IC 6-1.1-20.6) imposed for the year on the person's property within the taxing district.
    (e) The limitation in this section is in addition to any other property tax limit under this chapter, IC 6-1.1-18.5, or any other law.

SOURCE: ; (12)IN1352.1.2. -->     SECTION 2. An emergency is declared for this act.