Senate Bill No. 226 Summary

• Allows ambulance districts established on or after August 28, 2011 to fund operations through sales tax (up to one-half of one percent) instead of property tax, except in counties with charter government and over one million inhabitants.

• Establishes recall procedures for ambulance district board members requiring a petition signed by at least 25 percent of voters from the previous gubernatorial election, with recall elections held 45-120 days after petition certification.

• Creates tax checkoff allowing individuals and corporations to designate $2 or more (single return) or $4 or more (combined return) of income tax refunds to the organ donor program fund, with funds distributed monthly by the Department of Revenue.

• Authorizes fire protection districts in charter counties with over one million inhabitants to create ambulance districts with boundaries matching existing fire district boundaries when the dominant ambulance provider ceases operations.

• Sunsets the organ donor program fund checkoff on December 31 six years after enactment unless reauthorized, with further sunset 12 years after reauthorization.