HB 1503-1_ Filed 03/22/2001, 12:12

COMMITTEE REPORT




MR. PRESIDENT:

    The Senate Committee on Finance, to which was referred House Bill No. 1503, has had the same under consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the Senate with the recommendation that said bill be AMENDED as follows:

SOURCE: Page 3, line 27; (01)AM150304.3. -->     Page 3, between lines 27 and 28, begin a new paragraph and insert:
SOURCE: IC 6-3.5-1.1-2.5; (01)AM150304.2. -->     "SECTION 2. IC 6-3.5-1.1-2.5 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2001]: Sec. 2.5. (a) This section applies only to a county having a population of more than thirty-seven thousand (37,000) but less than thirty-seven thousand eight hundred (37,800).
    (b) The county council of a county described in subsection (a) may, by ordinance, determine that additional county adjusted gross income tax revenue is needed in the county to fund the operation and maintenance of a jail and juvenile detention center opened after July 1, 1998.
    (c) Notwithstanding section 2 of this chapter, if the county council adopts an ordinance under subsection (b), the county council may impose the county adjusted gross income tax at a rate of one and one-tenth percent (1.1%) on adjusted gross income. However, a county may impose the county adjusted gross income tax at a rate of one and one-tenth percent (1.1%) for only four (4) eight (8) years. After the county has imposed the county adjusted gross income tax at a rate of one and one-tenth percent (1.1%) for four (4) eight (8) years, the rate is reduced to one percent (1%). If the county council imposes the county adjusted gross income tax at a rate of one and one-tenth percent

(1.1%), the county council may decrease the rate or rescind the tax in the manner provided under this chapter.
    (d) If a county imposes the county adjusted gross income tax at a rate of one and one-tenth percent (1.1%) under this section, the revenue derived from a tax rate of one-tenth percent (0.1%) on adjusted gross income:
        (1) shall be paid to the county treasurer;
        (2) may be used only to pay the costs of operating a jail and juvenile detention center opened after July 1, 1998; and
        (3) may not be considered by the state board of tax commissioners in determining the county's maximum permissible property tax levy limit under IC 6-1.1-18.5.".

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    Renumber all SECTIONS consecutively.
    (Reference is to HB 1503 as printed February 22, 2001.)

and when so amended that said bill do pass .

Committee Vote: Yeas 12, Nays 0.

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Senator Borst, Chairperson


AM 150304/DI 44    2001