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SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION NO. 45
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBL Y
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENT A TIVE HARBISON.
7170H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
WHEREAS, in 1976, Congress passed legislation creating "Payment in Lieu of
2 T axes" (PIL T), which sends federal payments to local governments to help of fset lost property
3 taxes; and
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5 WHEREAS, more than 1.7 million acres of land in Missouri is owned by the federal
6 government; and
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8 WHEREAS, the four counties in Missouri receiving the most PIL T payments in 2022
9 were W ayne, Shannon, Reynolds, Oregon, and T aney; and
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11 WHEREAS, three of those five counties are in the top ten poorest counties in the
12 state; and
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14 WHEREAS, PIL T payments should be adjusted in a manner to better serve Missouri's
15 poorest counties who have a lar ger share of federal land:
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17 NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOL VED that the members of the House of
18 Representatives of the One Hundred Third General Assembly , Second Regular Session, the
19 Senate concurring therein, hereby ur ge the federal government to issue PIL T payments
20 equivalent to the tax assessment on the land if the land were assessed as level 7 agricultural
21 land when the 16% of the residents of the county are at or below the federal poverty level; and
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23 BE IT FUR THER RESOL VED that the Chief Clerk of the Missouri House of
24 Representatives be instructed to prepare a properly inscribed copy of this resolution for the
25 members of the Missouri congressional delegation.
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