95TH CONGRESS 2ND SESSION H.R. 14106 A BILL

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• Publication Date: September 18, 1978
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95Tx CONG1-RESS
2D SESSION
. R.14106
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SEPTEMBER 1$, 1978
MT, wEISS (for himself, 111T. EILBER(3, Mr?. GREEN, Ms. AOLTZMAN, lYJ.l'. lY1ALV P1,
Mr. STEERS, and Dqr. STOKES) introduced the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on GFovernment Operations
A BILL
To provide for payments in lieu of taxes to local governments by
the Administrator of (~-eneral Services based upon the
amount of certain tag-exempt property owned by the United
States and foreign governments within such locality.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f l~epresenta-
2 tines o f the United States o f America in Congress assembled,
3 That the Administrator is authorized and directed to make
4 payments under section 3 of this Act for each fiscal year
5 beginning on and after October 1, 1977, to each unit of local
6 government in which entitlement properties are located.
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1 -SEC. 2. (a) To be eligible for payments under this Act
2 for any fiscal year, a unit of local government shall submit an
3 application, at such time, in such form, and containing .such
4 information as the Administrator prescribes by regulation.
5 (b) Such applicant -shall include a statement by the unit
6 of local government, and an independent verification, of each
7 of the following:
8 (1) the entitlement properties within its jurisdic-
9 tion;
10 (2) the appraised value for each such property for
11 purposes of the local property tax;
12 (3) the tax rate applicable to each such property;
13 (4) any other factors used by the unit of local gov-
14 ernment in computing tax liability; and
15 (5) the total tax revenues that would be available
16 from the entitlement properties, determined by multi-
17 plying the value stated under paragraph (2) by the rate
18 stated under paragraph (3) and applying any other fac-
19 tors stated under paragraph (4), -for each such proper-
20 ty, and adding the resulting figures for all such -proper-
21 ties within the jurisdiction.
22 (c) The Administrator _shall disapprove any application
23 in which he determines that there exists a significant discrep-
24 ancy between the figures provided by the unit of local gov-
25 ernment and by the independent verification under subsection
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1 (b), or otherwise determines that the figures provided by such
2 unit are not reliable.
3 (d) Before disapproving -any application the Administra-
4 for shall give notice thereof to the unit of local government.
5 Such unit may then request a hearing before the Administra-
6 for within ninety days of such notice. It shall be within the
7 discretion of the Administrator after such hearing to approve
8 the original application or an amended application, or require
9 anew application to be filed.
10 SEC. 3. The amount of any payment made under the
11 first section of this Act for any fiscal year to a unit of local
12 government whose application has been approved by the Ad-
13 ministrator shall be the amount stated by the unit of local
14 government under paragraph (5) of section 2(b).
15 SEC. 4. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated such
16 sums as may be necessary for carrying out the provisions of
17 this Act.
18 (b) If sums appropriated in any fiscal year are not suffi-
19 cient to carry out the previsions of this Act, the Administra-
20 for shall ratably reduce the amounts paid to all units of local
21 government whose applications are approved for such year.
22 If additional funds are made available for such year, they
23 shall be used to ratably increase the amount paid to each
24 such unit of local government.
25 SEC. 5. As used in this Act, the term-
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(1) "Administrator"
q-eneral Services;
Act (22 U.S.C. 228);
(B) buildings, structures
means the Administrator of
(2) "entitlement property" means any of the fol-
lowing types of property which are exempt from the
property taxation of the .applicable unit of local
government-
(A) buildings, structures,' and other facilities,
and land, owned by a foreign government or by
an international organization as defined in section
1 of the International Organizations Immunities
-and other facilities,
and land upon which such improvements have
been built, owned by the United States, excluding
"entitlement lands" as defined in section 6(a) of
the -Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain
payments to be made to local governments by the
Secretary of the Interior based upon the amount
of certain public lands within the boundaries of
such locality" (31 U.S.C 1606(x); 90 Stat. 2665);
21 and
22 (C) military installations.
23 (3) "unit of local government" means a county,
24 municipality, parish, township, or other unit of govern-
25 ment below the State which is a unit of general gov-
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1 ernment and has taxing authority with respect to real
2 property, as determined by the Administrator.
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