How SB 1513 changes current law

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The bill revises funding ratios for justices of the peace, repeals certain sections regarding cost sharing, and updates the distribution of tax revenues.

• Section 22-117

  40 percent of the compensation and employee related expenditures of a justice of the peace, and the county shall pay 80.75 per cent → sixty percent of the compensation and employee related expenditures of a justice of the peace, except that the county shall pay the full amount of the employer contribution of the state retirement system or plan or any county health plan.

  Changes the state's share of compensation for justices of the peace from 40% to 60% in certain counties.

• Section 22-117

  one hundred per cent percent of the compensation and employee related expenditures of a justice of the peace. → one hundred percent of the compensation and employee related expenditures of a justice of the peace.

  Clarifies that counties with populations over 1.5 million are fully responsible for compensation of justices of the peace.

• Section 42-5029

  the assessed valuation used to determine secondary property taxes of each county, after deducting that part of the assessed valuation that is exempt from taxation at the beginning of the month for which the amount is to be paid, bears to the total assessed valuations used to determine secondary property taxes of all the counties after deducting that portion of the assessed valuations that is exempt from taxation at the beginning of the month for which the amount is to be paid. → the assessed valuation used to determine secondary property taxes of each county bears to the total assessed valuations used to determine secondary property taxes of all the counties.

  Simplifies the calculation of assessed valuations for the distribution of tax revenues to counties.