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Representative proposes update to joint sales-tax authority for proposed southeast Missouri lake
Summary
House Bill 149 would update a decades-old law allowing joint sales-tax votes between Cape Girardeau and Bollinger counties for a proposed lake project; sponsor said the revision reflects population and county-class changes and is intended to keep the option available while studies continue.
Representative Barry Hovis told the House Ways and Means Committee that House Bill 149 updates an older statute that allowed two counties to agree to a sales tax to finance a joint lake project. Hovis said the original language dated from the planning stage more than 25 years ago and needs revision to reflect that Cape Girardeau is now a class 1 county and to permit…
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