House Amendment 2110


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     1  1    Amend House File 923, as amended, passed, and
     1  2 reprinted by the House, as follows:
     1  3 #1.  Page 1, by inserting after line 20 the
     1  4 following:
     1  5    <Sec.    .  Section 331.434, subsection 1, Code
     1  6 2007, is amended to read as follows:
     1  7    1.  The budget shall show the amount required for
     1  8 each class of proposed expenditures, a comparison of
     1  9 the amounts proposed to be expended with the amounts
     1 10 expended for like purposes for the two preceding
     1 11 years, the revenues from sources other than property
     1 12 taxation, a tax increment financing budget including
     1 13 information required under section 384.16 for each
     1 14 urban renewal area established by the county, and the
     1 15 amount to be raised by property taxation, in the
     1 16 detail and form prescribed by the director of the
     1 17 department of management.
     1 18    Sec.    .  Section 384.16, subsection 1, Code 2007,
     1 19 is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
     1 20    NEW PARAGRAPH.  d.  A tax increment financing
     1 21 budget for each urban renewal area established by the
     1 22 city.
     1 23    Sec.    .  Section 384.16, subsection 1, unnumbered
     1 24 paragraph 2, Code 2007, is amended to read as follows:
     1 25    A budget must show comparisons between the
     1 26 estimated expenditures in each program in the
     1 27 following year, the latest estimated expenditures in
     1 28 each program in the current year, and the actual
     1 29 expenditures in each program from the annual report as
     1 30 provided in section 384.22, or as corrected by a
     1 31 subsequent audit report.  Wherever practicable, as
     1 32 provided in rules of the committee, a budget,
     1 33 including the tax increment financing budget, must
     1 34 show comparisons between the levels of service
     1 35 provided by each program as estimated for the
     1 36 following year, and actual levels of service provided
     1 37 by each program during the two preceding years.
     1 38 Wherever practicable, the tax increment financing
     1 39 budget shall include estimated and actual tax
     1 40 increment financing revenues and all estimated and
     1 41 actual expenditures of the revenues, proceeds from
     1 42 debt and all estimated and actual expenditures of the
     1 43 debt proceeds, and identification of any entity
     1 44 receiving a direct payment of taxes funded by tax
     1 45 increment financing revenues.>
     1 46 #2.  Page 9, by inserting after line 4 the
     1 47 following:
     1 48    <Sec.    .  Section 427.3, Code 2007, is amended to
     1 49 read as follows:
     1 50    427.3  ABATEMENT OF TAXES OF CERTAIN EXEMPT
     2  1 ENTITIES.
     2  2    The board of supervisors may abate the taxes levied
     2  3 against property acquired by gift or purchase by a
     2  4 person or entity if the property acquired by gift or
     2  5 purchase was transferred to the person or entity after
     2  6 the deadline for filing for property tax exemption in
     2  7 the year in which the property was transferred and the
     2  8 property acquired by gift or purchase would have been
     2  9 exempt under section 427.1, subsection 7, 8, or 9, if
     2 10 the person or entity had been able to file for
     2 11 exemption in a timely manner.
     2 12    Sec.    .  REFUND OF PROPERTY TAXES.
     2 13 Notwithstanding the deadline for filing a claim for
     2 14 property tax exemption for property described in
     2 15 section 427.1, subsection 8 or 9, and notwithstanding
     2 16 any other provision to the contrary, the board of
     2 17 supervisors of a county having a population based upon
     2 18 the latest federal decennial census of more than
     2 19 eighty=eight thousand but not more than ninety=five
     2 20 thousand shall refund the property taxes paid, with
     2 21 all interest, penalties, fees, and costs which were
     2 22 due and payable in the fiscal year beginning July 1,
     2 23 2002, and in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2005,
     2 24 on the land and buildings of an institution that
     2 25 purchased property and that did not receive a property
     2 26 tax exemption for the property due to the inability or
     2 27 failure to file for the exemption.  To receive the
     2 28 refund provided for in this section, the institution
     2 29 shall apply to the county board of supervisors by
     2 30 October 1, 2007, and provide appropriate information
     2 31 establishing that the land and buildings for which the
     2 32 refund is sought were used by the institution for its
     2 33 appropriate objectives during the fiscal year
     2 34 beginning July 1, 2002, and during the fiscal year
     2 35 beginning July 1, 2005.  The refund allowed under this
     2 36 section only applies to property taxes, with all
     2 37 interest, penalties, fees, and costs, due and payable
     2 38 in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2002, and in the
     2 39 fiscal year beginning July 1, 2005.
     2 40    Sec.    .  IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE.  The section
     2 41 of this division of this Act, amending section 427.3,
     2 42 being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect
     2 43 upon enactment and applies retroactively to property
     2 44 taxes due and payable in the fiscal year beginning
     2 45 July 1, 2002, and in the fiscal year beginning July 1,
     2 46 2005.>
     2 47 #3.  By renumbering, relettering, or redesignating
     2 48 and correcting internal references as necessary.
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