PRINTER'S NO. 4240
No. 2731 Session of 2008
INTRODUCED BY SAYLOR, GILLESPIE, MACKERETH, R. MILLER, PERRY,
HERSHEY, PHILLIPS, RUBLEY, SIPTROTH AND SWANGER,
AUGUST 7, 2008
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, AUGUST 7, 2008
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 27, 2006 (1st Sp.Sess., P.L.1873,
2 No.1), entitled "An act providing for taxation by school
3 districts, for the State funds formula, for tax relief in
4 first class cities, for school district choice and voter
5 participation, for other school district options and for a
6 task force on school cost reduction; making an appropriation;
7 prohibiting prior authorized taxation; providing for
8 installment payment of taxes; restricting the power of
9 certain school districts to levy, assess and collect taxes;
10 and making related repeals," further providing for adoption
11 of further referendum.
12 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
13 hereby enacts as follows:
14 Section 1. Section 332 of the act of June 27, 2006 (1st
15 Sp.Sess., P.L.1873, No.1), known as the Taxpayer Relief Act, is
16 amended by adding a subsection to read:
17 Section 332. Adoption of further referendum.
18 * * *
19 (b.1) 2009 municipal election in certain third class
20 counties.--A board of school directors in a county of the third
21 class with a city of the third class having a population between
22 40,000 and 41,000 as determined by the Bureau of the United
1 States Census in the Department of Commerce in the 2000 Census
2 shall submit a referendum question pursuant to subsection (b) to
3 the electorate of the school district at the municipal election
4 of 2009. The proposed tax rate shall be established by the board
5 of school directors of the school district and shall equal the
6 rate required to provide an exclusion for homestead property and
7 farmstead property equal to the maximum exclusion under 53
8 Pa.C.S. § 8586 (relating to limitations). Subsections (a)(2),
9 (d), (e), (g), (h) and (i) shall apply to a referendum question
10 held pursuant to this subsection. No school district shall seek
11 to impose a tax pursuant to this subsection that is authorized
12 under section 321(b).
13 * * *
14 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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