S-5154

   Amend House File 2456, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the House, as follows:
   1.  Page 1, line 9, by striking <change> and inserting <increase>
   2.  Page 3, by striking lines 18 through 23 and inserting <for a period of at least twenty consecutive years, the board of directors of the merged area may, by resolution adopted at any time before the end of the most recently authorized period of time for imposing the tax, continue to impose the voted>
   3.  Page 3, line 24, by striking <a period> and inserting <an additional period>
   4.  Page 3, line 32, by striking <changed> and inserting <increased>
   5.  Page 4, line 4, by striking <change> and inserting <increase>
   6.  Page 4, line 9, after <ballot> by inserting <and received by the board of directors by June 1 of the year in which the election is to be held>
   7.  Page 4, line 21, after <subsection 1.> by inserting <If the question of whether to discontinue the authority of the board of directors to impose the tax fails to gain approval at election, the question shall not be submitted to the voters of the merged area for a period of ten years following the date of the election.>
   8.  Page 4, line 22, by striking <change> and inserting <increase>
   9.  Page 4, line 23, by striking <change> and inserting <increase>
   10.  Page 5, line 19, by striking <a period> and inserting <an additional period>
   11.  Page 6, line 13, after <paragraph “a”.> by inserting <If the question of whether to discontinue the authority of the board of directors to impose the additional tax fails to gain approval at election, the question shall not be submitted to the voters of the merged area for a period of ten years following the date of the election.>
   12.  By renumbering, redesignating, and correcting internal references as necessary.

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COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

JOE BOLKCOM, CHAIRPERSON