HB4560 Summary

• Amends the Transportation Development Partnership Act to allow counties and intergovernmental entities to designate funds by ordinance for deposit into the Transportation Development Partnership Trust Fund for transportation-related projects.

• Expands the Special County Retailers' Occupation Tax to include mental health and substance abuse purposes in addition to public safety, public facilities, and transportation, allowing counties to impose sales taxes in quarter-percent increments for these purposes.

• Requires counties imposing transportation taxes for public highways or passenger rail to publish and make publicly available their long-range transportation plans prior to tax approval.

• Updates the Simplified Sales and Use Tax Administration Act definitions to include the new mental health and substance abuse tax categories in the definition of "Sales Tax."

• Takes effect upon becoming law.