April 15, 2011





ENGROSSED

HOUSE BILL No. 1005

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DIGEST OF HB 1005 (Updated April 12, 2011 1:17 pm - DI 58)



Citations Affected: IC 6-3.1.

Synopsis: Industrial recovery tax credit. Makes certain changes to the industrial recovery income tax credit. Reduces the number of years, from 20 to 15, in which a vacant industrial facility must have been in service. Reduces the percentage of a facility, from 75% to 50%, that must not be utilized in order for the facility to be considered vacant. Reduces, from two years to one year, the time that a facility must be vacant. Reduces the maximum amount of floor space, from 250,000 square feet to 100,000 square feet, that a vacant industrial facility may have to qualify.

Effective: January 1, 2011 (retroactive).





Clere, Bosma, Yarde , Cheatham
(SENATE SPONSORS _ CHARBONNEAU, HERSHMAN, ARNOLD, GROOMS, TOMES, RANDOLPH)




    January 12, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development.
    February 10, 2011, amended, reported _ Do Pass.
    February 14, 2011, read second time, ordered engrossed.
    February 15, 2011, engrossed. Read third time, passed. Yeas 93, nays 0.

SENATE ACTION

    February 17, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy.
    April 14, 2011, amended, reported favorably _ Do Pass.






April 15, 2011

First Regular Session 117th General Assembly (2011)


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ENGROSSED

HOUSE BILL No. 1005



    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 6-3.1-11-1; (11)EH1005.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 6-3.1-11-1 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2011 (RETROACTIVE)]: Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "applicable percentage" means the percentage determined as follows:
        (1) If a plant that is located on an industrial recovery site was placed in service at least twenty (20) fifteen (15) years ago but less than thirty (30) years ago, the applicable percentage is fifteen percent (15%).
        (2) If a plant that is located on an industrial recovery site was placed in service at least thirty (30) years ago but less than forty (40) years ago, the applicable percentage is twenty percent (20%).
        (3) If a plant that is located on an industrial recovery site was placed in service at least forty (40) years ago, the applicable percentage is twenty-five percent (25%).
The time that has expired since a plant was placed in service shall be determined as of the date that an application is filed with the board for designation of the location as an industrial recovery site under this

chapter.

SOURCE: IC 6-3.1-11-14; (11)EH1005.1.2. -->     SECTION 2. IC 6-3.1-11-14 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2011 (RETROACTIVE)]: Sec. 14. As used in this chapter, "vacant" means with respect to a plant that at least seventy-five fifty percent (75%) (50%) of the plant placed in service is not used to carry on production, manufacturing, assembly, processing, refining, finishing, or warehousing of tangible personal property.
SOURCE: IC 6-3.1-11-15; (11)EH1005.1.3. -->     SECTION 3. IC 6-3.1-11-15 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2011 (RETROACTIVE)]: Sec. 15. As used in this chapter, "vacant industrial facility" means a tract of land on which there is located a plant that:
        (1) has at least two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet of floor space;
        (2) was placed in service at least twenty (20) fifteen (15) years ago; and
        (3) has been vacant for two (2) or more years, at least one (1) year, unless the tract and the plant are owned by a municipality or a county, in which case the two (2) one (1) year requirement does not apply.
SOURCE: ; (11)EH1005.1.4. -->     SECTION 4. An emergency is declared for this act.