Introduced Version






HOUSE BILL No. 1142

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL



Citations Affected: IC 6-1.1-45.

Synopsis: Property tax roundtable. Establishes the property tax roundtable.

Effective: Upon passage.





Scholer




    January 13, 2004, read first time and referred to Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedures.







Introduced

Second Regular Session 113th General Assembly (2004)


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HOUSE BILL No. 1142



    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 6-1.1-45; (04)IN1142.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 6-1.1-45 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE AS A NEW CHAPTER TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE UPON PASSAGE]:
     Chapter 45. Property Tax Roundtable
    Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "executive" has the meaning set forth in IC 36-1-2-5.
    Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "fiscal body" has the meaning set forth in IC 36-1-2-6.
    Sec. 3. As used in this chapter, "roundtable" refers to the property tax roundtable established by section 4 of this chapter.
    Sec. 4. The property tax roundtable is established.
    Sec. 5. (a) The roundtable consists of the following members:
        (1) The chair and the ranking minority member of the senate finance committee.
        (2) The chair and the ranking minority member of the house of representatives ways and means committee.
        (3) The commissioner of the department of local government

finance.
        (4) A number of members appointed by the governor who must be representatives of:
            (A) business, community, and school leaders;
            (B) county assessors;
            (C) township assessors;
            (D) township trustee-assessors;
            (E) city executives;
            (F) county executives; and
            (G) county fiscal bodies.
        The number of members appointed under clause (A) must be equal to the combined number of members appointed under clauses (B) through (G).
    (b) The governor shall make appointments under subsection (a) before July 1, 2004.
    (c) The appointed members of the roundtable serve at the pleasure of the governor. The governor shall fill any vacancy on the roundtable within forty-five (45) days of the vacancy.
    Sec. 6. The roundtable shall operate under the rules of the legislative council.
    Sec. 7. (a) The chair of the senate finance committee and the chair of the house of representatives ways and means committee shall serve as cochairs of the roundtable. The roundtable shall meet upon the call of the cochairs.
    (b) A quorum of the roundtable must be present to conduct business. A quorum consists of a majority of the voting members appointed to the roundtable. The roundtable may not take an official action unless the official action has been approved by at least a majority of the voting members appointed to serve on the roundtable.
    Sec. 8. The roundtable is a permanent body and working group.
    Sec. 9. The legislative services agency shall provide staff support to the roundtable.
    Sec. 10. (a) The roundtable shall:
        (1) study:
            (A) the levels of government:
                (i) at which decisions are made concerning various areas of governmental responsibility; and
                (ii) at which decisions are made concerning sources of funding for those areas;
            (B) the extent to which unfunded mandates are imposed on:


                (i) the state; and
                (ii) local units of government;
            (C) efficiencies in the methodology of tracking and keeping data on property tax matters; and
            (D) the extent to which:
                (i) useful data on property tax matters is being tracked and kept; and
                (ii) the tracking and keeping of other data on property tax matters would be useful; and
        (2) provide recommendations on the subjects referred to in subdivision (1) to the following:
            (A) The governor.
            (B) The commissioner of the department of local government finance.
            (C) The executive director of the legislative services agency in an electronic format under IC 5-14-6.
    (b) Before providing a recommendation under subsection (a), the roundtable shall prepare an analysis of the fiscal impact that the recommendation will have on:
        (1) the state; and
        (2) political subdivisions affected by the recommendation.
The analysis must be submitted with the recommendation under subsection (a).
    (c) Whenever the roundtable provides a recommendation under subsection (a) and the fiscal impact prepared under subsection (b) indicates that the impact of the recommendation will be at least five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000), the roundtable shall submit a copy of the recommendation and the fiscal impact prepared under subsection (b) to the legislative services agency for review. Not more than forty-five (45) days after receiving a copy of the recommendation and fiscal analysis, the legislative services agency shall prepare a fiscal analysis concerning the effect that compliance with the recommendation will have on:
        (1) the state; and
        (2) political subdivisions affected by the proposed recommendation.
The fiscal analysis must contain an estimate of the direct fiscal impact of the recommendation and a determination concerning the extent to which the recommendation creates an unfunded mandate on the state or a political subdivision affected by the proposed recommendation. The fiscal analysis is a public document. The legislative services agency shall make the fiscal analysis available

to interested parties upon request. The roundtable shall provide the legislative services agency with the information necessary to prepare the fiscal analysis. The legislative services agency may also receive and consider applicable information from the entities affected by the recommendation in preparation of the fiscal analysis. The legislative services agency shall provide copies of its fiscal analysis to each of the persons described in subsection (a)(2).

SOURCE: ; (04)IN1142.1.2. -->     SECTION 2. An emergency is declared for this act.