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SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE JOINT
RESOLUTION NO. 1 1 1
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBL Y
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENT A TIVE COLEMAN.
5410H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
JOINT RESOLUTION
Submitting to the qualified voters of Missouri an amendment repealing Section 1 1(g) of
Article X of the Constitution of Missouri, and adopting one new section in lieu thereof
relating to taxation.
Be it r esolved by the House of Repr esentatives, the Senate concurring ther ein:
That at the next general election to be held in the state of Missouri, on T uesday next
2 following the first Monday in November , 2026, or at a special election to be called by the
3 governor for that purpose, there is hereby submitted to the qualified voters of this state, for
4 adoption or rejection, the following amendment to Article X of the Constitution of the state of
5 Missouri:
Section A. Section 1 1(g), Article X, Constitution of Missouri, is repealed and one
2 new section adopted in lieu thereof, to be known as Section 1 1(g), to read as follows:
Section 1 1(g). 1. The school board of any school district whose operating levy for
2 school purposes for the 1995 tax year was established pursuant to a federal court order may
3 establish the operating levy for school purposes for the district at a rate that is lower than the
4 court-ordered rate for the 1995 tax year . The rate so established may be changed from year to
5 year by the school board of the district. Approval by a majority of the voters of the district
6 voting thereon shall be required for any operating levy for school purposes equal to or greater
7 than the rate established by court order for the 1995 tax year . The authority granted in this
8 section shall apply to any successor school district or successor school districts of such school
9 district. This subsection shall expir e on December 31, 2026.
EXPLANA TION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is
intended to be omitted from the law . Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.
10 2. For the 2027 calendar year , on January 1, 2027, the operating levy of a school
11 district described in subsection 1 of this section shall be set to the rate at which such
12 school district would receiv e:
13 (1) The same amount of pro perty tax reve nue fr om its operating levy that such
14 school district r eceived in the 2026 tax year; and
15 (2) An additional per centage of the amount of pr operty tax rev enue described in
16 subdivision (1) of this subsection calculated by multiplying the amount of such pr operty
17 tax revenu e by the percen tage of increa se in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban
18 Consumers over the twelve-month period fro m December 2025 to November 2026.
Section B. Pursuant to chapter 1 16, and other applicable constitutional provisions and
2 laws of this state allowing the general assembly to adopt ballot language for the submission of
3 this joint resolution to the voters of this state, the of ficial summary statement of this
4 resolution shall be as follows:
5 "Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to:
6 • Authorize Kansas City Public Schools to maintain its property tax revenue for
7 school purposes while moving the taxpayers of the district under taxpayer protections of
8 Article X of the Constitution of Missouri?".
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