Bill Summary: Would propose a constitutional amendment allowing constitutionally chartered cities or counties to impose liens on nuisance property.

ESTIMATED NET EFFECT ON GENERAL REVENUE FUND
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Total Estimated Net Effect on General Revenue Fund	$0	$0	$0

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Total Estimated Net Effect on Other State Funds	$0	$0	$0

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Total Estimated Net Effect on All Federal Funds	$0	$0	$0

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☐ Estimated Total Net Effect on All funds expected to exceed $100,000 savings or (cost).

☐ Estimated Net Effect on General Revenue Fund expected to exceed $100,000 (cost).

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Local Government	$0	$0	$0

Officials from the Office of the Attorney General, the Office of the State Auditor, the Office of State Courts Administrator, the Office of Administration, Division of Budget and Planning, the Department of Revenue, the State Tax Commission, St. Louis County, and the City of Centralia assume this proposal would have no fiscal impact on their organizations.

Officials from the Office of the Secretary of State (SOS) provided the following response.

Many joint resolutions are considered by the General Assembly that would require the SOS to pay for publishing in local newspapers the full text of each statewide ballot measure. The SOS is provided with core funding to handle a certain amount of normal activity resulting from each year’s legislative session. Funding for this item is adjusted each year depending upon the election cycle with $1.6 million historically appropriated in even numbered fiscal years and $100,000 appropriated in odd numbered fiscal years to meet these requirements.

The appropriation has historically been an estimated appropriation because the final cost is dependent upon the number of ballot measures approved by the General Assembly and the initiative petitions certified for the ballot. In FY 2007, at the August and November elections, there were 6 statewide Constitutional Amendments or ballot propositions that cost $1.2 million to publish (an average of $193,000 per issue). Therefore, the SOS assumes, for the purposes of this fiscal note, that it should have the full appropriation authority it needs to meet the publishing requirements. However, because these requirements are mandatory, we reserve the right to request funding to meet the cost of our publishing requirements if the Governor and the General Assembly change the amount or eliminate the estimated nature of our appropriation.

Officials from the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) assume this proposal would propose to the voters a constitutional amendment which would repeal the authority of constitutionally chartered cities and counties to take blighted property by eminent domain but authorize them to enact ordinances against public nuisance properties and to impose liens on the properties for the public expense of nuisance abatement if the property owner fails to do so.

DNR officials assumed the proposal would have no fiscal impact on their organization.

Oversight assumes that this proposal would become effective only after approval by the voters and that any impact to local governments would be the recovery of costs from nuisance abatement activities, with only minimal net impact.

No direct fiscal impact to small businesses would be expected as a result of this proposal.

This legislation is not federally mandated, would not duplicate any other program and would not require additional capital improvements or rental space.