HB 1797-S - DIGEST |
(DIGEST OF PROPOSED 1ST SUBSTITUTE) |
Provides cities limited sales tax remittance for qualifying investments. |
Provides cities and counties: (1) With the authority to use real estate excise taxes to support affordable housing; and |
(2) With councilmanic authority to impose the affordable housing sales tax. |
Requires a city, when the application for a remittance is approved, to create an affordable housing and local infrastructure account to be used for the city's acquisition or construction of affordable housing or local infrastructure. |
Requires certain taxes to be used, from July 1, 2017, until June 30, 2022, for the acquisition, construction, improvement, or rehabilitation of facilities to provide housing for the homeless. |
Authorizes the department of commerce to approve only one affordable housing project and one local infrastructure project per city. |