Attorney General's Opinion Letter 66-2005
Topics:
Joint resolutions.
Senate joint resolution.
Summary conclusion
Review and approval of legal content and form of a fiscal note summary prepared pursuant to Section 116.175, RSMo, concerning a proposed constitutional amendment passed by the Missouri General Assembly (Senate Joint Resolution No. 1) to reauthorize for ten years the one-tenth percent sales/use tax for soil and water conservation and state parks and historic sites and to submit this issue to a vote every ten years or at an earlier special election.
Contents of letter
June 23, 2005
Honorable Claire C. McCaskill
Missouri State Auditor
224 State Capitol Building
Jefferson City, MO 65101
Dear Auditor McCaskill:
This office is in receipt of your letter of June 16, 2005, submitting a fiscal note and fiscal note summary prepared pursuant to Section 116.175, RSMo, concerning Senate Joint Resolution No. 1. The fiscal note summary that you submitted is as follows:
The proposed constitutional amendment continues until 2016, but does not increase, the existing sales and use tax of one-tenth of one percent that is set to terminate in 2008. The tax would generate approximately $82 million annually for soil and water conservation efforts and operation of the state park system.
Pursuant to Section 116.175, we approve the legal content and form of the fiscal note summary. Because our review of the fiscal note summary is mandated by statute, no action that we take with respect to such review should be construed as an endorsement of the petition or as the expression of any view regarding the objectives of its proponents.
Very truly yours,
JEREMIAH W. (JAY) NIXON
Attorney General