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HOUSE BILL NO. 781

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H0781...............................................by REVENUE AND TAXATION
PROPERTY TAX NOTICES - Amends existing law to provide that school district
taxes shall be separately shown as "maintenance and operation," "bond,"
"supplemental" and "other" on property tax notices; and to allow payments
of current or future real or personal property taxes on a monthly or
quarterly basis.
                                                                        
03/07    House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
03/08    Rpt prt - to Rev/Tax
03/15    Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/16    2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/20    3rd rdg - PASSED - 62-0-8
      AYES -- Anderson, Andrus, Barraclough, Barrett, Bastian, Bayer,
      Bedke, Bilbao, Black, Block, Boe, Bolz, Brackett, Bradford, Cannon,
      Chadderdon, Clark, Collins, Deal, Denney, Edmunson, Eskridge,
      Field(18), Field(23), Garrett, Hart, Harwood, Henbest, Henderson,
      Kemp, LeFavour, Loertscher, Martinez, Mathews, McGeachin, McKague,
      Miller, Mitchell, Moyle, Nielsen, Nonini, Pasley-Stuart, Pence, Ring,
      Ringo, Roberts, Rusche, Rydalch, Sali, Sayler, Schaefer, Shepherd(2),
      Shepherd(8), Shirley, Skippen, Smith(30), Smith(24), Smylie,
      Snodgrass, Trail, Wills, Wood
      NAYS -- None
      Absent and excused -- Bell, Crow, Ellsworth, Jaquet, Lake, Raybould,
      Stevenson, Mr. Speaker
    Floor Sponsor - Roberts
    Title apvd - to Senate
03/21    Senate intro - 1st rdg - to Loc Gov
03/24    Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/27    2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/28    3rd rdg - PASSED - 34-0-1
      AYES -- Andreason, Brandt, Broadsword, Bunderson, Burkett(Clark),
      Burtenshaw, Cameron, Coiner, Compton, Corder, Darrington, Davis,
      Fulcher, Gannon, Geddes, Goedde, Hill, Jorgenson, Kelly, Keough,
      Langhorst, Little, Lodge, Malepeai, Marley, McGee, McKenzie, Pearce,
      Richardson, Schroeder, Stegner, Stennett, Werk, Williams
      NAYS -- None
      Absent and excused -- Sweet
    Floor Sponsor - McKenzie
    Title apvd - to House
03/29    To enrol
03/30    Rpt enrol - Sp signed
03/31    Pres signed - To Governor
03/31    Governor signed
         Session Law Chapter 322
         Effective: 07/01/06

Bill Text


                                                                        
                                                                        
  ]]]]              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ]]]]
 Fifty-eighth Legislature                   Second Regular Session - 2006
                                                                        
                                                                        
                              IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                                                                        
                                     HOUSE BILL NO. 781
                                                                        
                             BY REVENUE AND TAXATION COMMITTEE
                                                                        
  1                                        AN ACT
  2    RELATING TO PROPERTY TAXES; AMENDING SECTION 63-902, IDAHO  CODE,  TO  PROVIDE
  3        THAT  SCHOOL  DISTRICT  TAXES  SHALL BE SEPARATELY SHOWN ON TAX NOTICES AS
  4        MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION, BOND, SUPPLEMENTAL AND OTHER; AND AMENDING SEC-
  5        TION 63-906, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE THAT ANY PERSON  UPON  APPLICATION  TO
  6        THE  TAX  COLLECTOR  MAY ESTABLISH A PAYMENT SCHEDULE TO ALLOW PAYMENTS OF
  7        CURRENT OR FUTURE REAL OR PERSONAL PROPERTY TAXES ON A MONTHLY OR A  QUAR-
  8        TERLY BASIS OF AT LEAST TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS OR THE BALANCE OWING.
                                                                        
  9    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
                                                                        
 10        SECTION  1.  That  Section  63-902, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 11    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 12        63-902.  PROPERTY TAX NOTICE AND RECEIPTS -- DUTY OF  TAX  COLLECTOR.  (1)
 13    For  property  on the property roll or operating property roll, the county tax
 14    collector must, prior to the fourth Monday of November in each year,  mail  to
 15    every  taxpayer,  or  to  his agent or representative, at his last known post-
 16    office address, a tax notice prepared upon forms prescribed in section 63-219,
 17    Idaho Code, which shall contain at least the following:
 18        (a)  The year in which the property tax was levied;
 19        (b)  The name and address of the property owner;
 20        (c)  An accurate description of the property, or in lieu thereof, the  tax
 21        number of record;
 22        (d)  The parcel number;
 23        (e)  Full market value for assessment purposes;
 24        (f)  The total amount of property taxes due:
 25             (i)   State;
 26             (ii)  County;
 27             (iii) City;
 28             (iv)  School district separately shown as:
 29                  (A)  Maintenance and operation;
 30                  (B)  Bond;
 31                  (C)  Supplemental;
 32                  (D)  Other;
 33             (v)   And every other tax being separately shown.
 34        (g)  All property tax levies in the tax code area;
 35        (h)  The date when such property taxes become delinquent;
 36        (i)  Notation of delinquencies against said property;
 37        (j)  Whether an interim payment account exists;
 38        (k)  The different payment options available to the taxpayer, his agent or
 39        representative shall be printed in boldface type in a contrasting color or
 40        highlighted on the face of the tax notice.
 41        (2)  The  tax notices shall be numbered consecutively and the numbers must
 42    be entered upon all property rolls.
 43        (3)  Tax notices prepared in tax code area format shall  state  that  levy
                                                                        
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  1    sheets are available to the public.
  2        (4)  Levy  sheets  shall  list the total property tax levy for each taxing
  3    district  or taxing jurisdiction and the total in each tax code area.
  4        (5)  If the taxpayer is one other than the equitable titleholder, such  as
  5    an  escrowee,  trustee  of trust deed or other third party, the taxpayer shall
  6    deliver to the equitable titleholder a statement of the total amount of  prop-
  7    erty taxes billed, on or before the second Monday of December.
  8        (6)  The  tax  collector  in  each  county  of  the state is authorized to
  9    destroy all duplicate property tax receipts and microfilm of tax  receipts  on
 10    file in his office as they reach ten (10) years old. Property tax receipts may
 11    be destroyed if information has been replicated in other storage media.
 12        (7)  Computer and data processing routines for completion of all phases of
 13    the  property  tax roll procedures may be utilized with the responsibility for
 14    completion of each office's statutory duties to remain under  the  supervision
 15    of  that office. Wherever the designation "property roll" appears within title
 16    63, data processing or computer procedures and forms  may  be  substituted  as
 17    permanent records.
 18        (8)  The  county  tax collector must, as soon as possible after the subse-
 19    quent or missed property roll is delivered to him  from  the  county  auditor,
 20    mail  a  notice  to every taxpayer listed on the subsequent or missed property
 21    roll, or to his agent or representative. The notice shall conform as nearly as
 22    possible to the notice required for property listed on the property roll.
 23        (9)  Failure to mail such property tax notice, or receipt of  said  notice
 24    by  the  taxpayer, shall not invalidate the property taxes, or any proceedings
 25    in the collection of property taxes, or any proceedings in the foreclosure  of
 26    property tax liens.
 27        (10) No  charge,  other  than  property  taxes, shall be included on a tax
 28    notice unless the entity placing such charge has received  approval  from  the
 29    board  of county commissioners to place such charge on the tax notice and such
 30    entity:
 31        (a)  Has the authority by law to place a lien on property; and
 32        (b)  Has the authority to certify such charge to the auditor; and
 33        (c)  Is required to collect such charge in the same manner provided by law
 34        for the collection of real and personal property taxes.
                                                                        
 35        SECTION 2.  That Section 63-906, Idaho Code, be, and the  same  is  hereby
 36    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 37        63-906.  INTERIM PAYMENT ACCOUNT -- RECEIPT FOR DEPOSITS. Any person, upon
 38    application  to  the  tax collector, may establish a payment schedule to allow
 39    payments including, but not limited to, monthly or quarterly, in amounts of at
 40    least twenty-five dollars ($25.00) or the balance  owing,  to  be  accumulated
 41    toward the payment of current or future real or personal property taxes.
 42        (1)  The tax collector shall issue a numbered receipt consisting of:
 43        (a)  Date deposited;
 44        (b)  Name and address of person making deposit;
 45        (c)  The amount of payment; and
 46        (d)  Account identification number or parcel number or legal description.
 47        (2)  The county shall pay no interest on any interim payment receipts, and
 48    the  amount  so  deposited cannot be withdrawn by the depositor. Such receipts
 49    shall not invalidate any proceedings in the collection of property  taxes,  or
 50    in  the  issuance  of any delinquency or any proceedings in the foreclosure of
 51    tax liens.
 52        (3)  The payment shall be posted to the roll when the current property tax
 53    becomes due.
                                                                        
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  1        (4)  The tax collector may return to the depositor any moneys deposited in
  2    excess of the amount necessary to satisfy the tax lien if the payment schedule
  3    is not maintained.
  4        (5)  The tax collector shall be held accountable for all  moneys  received
  5    under this subsection and shall be liable on his official bond for the custody
  6    and  safekeeping of such moneys, except as to what may be on deposit in desig-
  7    nated depositories under the provisions of the public depository law, which is
  8    hereby made applicable to such deposits.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact



                           STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

                                 RS 16205

     This legislation provides that school district taxes shall
be separately shown on tax notices as maintenance and operation,
bond, supplemental and other.  It also provides that the tax
collector may establish a payment schedule to allow payments of
current or future real or personal property taxes on a monthly or
quarterly basis of at least Twenty-Five dollars or the balance
owing.  



                                 FISCAL NOTE

     None 






Contact
Name: Rep. Ken Roberts 
Phone: 332-1111


STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE                            H 781