This document includes House Floor Amendments incorporated into the bill on Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 12:01 PM by naomigarrow.
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8 LONG TITLE
9 General Description:
10 This bill modifies provisions relating to the county sales and use tax for rural county
11 health care facilities.
12 Highlighted Provisions:
13 This bill:
14 ▸ modifies the purposes for which a county of the Ĥ→ third or ←Ĥ fourth class may
14a use money
15 collected from the rural county health care facilities tax; and
16 ▸ makes technical and conforming changes.
17 Money Appropriated in this Bill:
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19 Other Special Clauses:
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21 Utah Code Sections Affected:
22 AMENDS:
23 59-12-802, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2017, Chapter 422
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25 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
26 Section 1. Section 59-12-802 is amended to read:
27 59-12-802. Imposition of rural county health care facilities tax -- Expenditure of
28 tax revenue -- Base -- Rate -- Administration, collection, and enforcement of tax --
29 Administrative charge.
30 (1) (a) A county legislative body of a county of the third, fourth, fifth, or sixth class
31 may impose a sales and use tax of up to 1% on the transactions described in Subsection
32 59-12-103(1) located within the county.
33 (b) Subject to Subsection (3), the money collected from a tax under this section may be
34 used to fund:
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37 (ii) for a county of the fourth, fifth, or sixth class:
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44 (c) Notwithstanding Subsection (1)(a), a county legislative body may not impose a tax
45 under this section on:
46 (i) the sales and uses described in Section 59-12-104 to the extent the sales and uses
47 are exempt from taxation under Section 59-12-104;
48 (ii) a transaction to the extent a rural city hospital tax is imposed on that transaction in
49 a city that imposes a tax under Section 59-12-804; and
50 (iii) except as provided in Subsection (1)(e), amounts paid or charged for food and
51 food ingredients.
52 (d) For purposes of this Subsection (1), the location of a transaction shall be
53 determined in accordance with Sections 59-12-211 through 59-12-215.
54 (e) A county legislative body imposing a tax under this section shall impose the tax on
55 the purchase price or sales price for amounts paid or charged for food and food ingredients if
56 the food and food ingredients are sold as part of a bundled transaction attributable to food and
57 food ingredients and tangible personal property other than food and food ingredients.
58 (2) (a) Before imposing a tax under Subsection (1), a county legislative body shall
59 obtain approval to impose the tax from a majority of the:
60 (i) members of the county's legislative body; and
61 (ii) county's registered voters voting on the imposition of the tax.
62 (b) The county legislative body shall conduct the election according to the procedures
63 and requirements of Title 11, Chapter 14, Local Government Bonding Act.
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65 legislative body of a county of the third [or fourth] class may only be used [for the financing of]
66 to fund:
67 (i) ongoing operating expenses of a rural county health care facility within that county;
68 (ii) the acquisition of land for a rural county health care facility within that county; or
69 (iii) the design, construction, equipping, or furnishing of a rural county health care
70 facility within that county.
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80 (4) (a) A tax under this section shall be:
81 (i) except as provided in Subsection (4)(b), administered, collected, and enforced in
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83 (A) the same procedures used to administer, collect, and enforce the tax under:
84 (I) Part 1, Tax Collection; or
85 (II) Part 2, Local Sales and Use Tax Act; and
86 (B) Chapter 1, General Taxation Policies; and
87 (ii) levied for a period of 10 years and may be reauthorized at the end of the ten-year
88 period by the county legislative body as provided in Subsection (1).
89 (b) A tax under this section is not subject to Subsections 59-12-205(2) through (6).
90 (c) A county legislative body shall distribute money collected from a tax under this
91 section quarterly.
92 (5) The commission shall retain and deposit an administrative charge in accordance
93 with Section 59-1-306 from the revenue the commission collects from a tax under this section.