OPINION NO. 139-2006 (2006)

Claire C. McCaskill

Attorney General of Missouri — Opinion.
August 24, 2006

Topics:

Joint resolutions. Senate joint resolution.

Summary conclusion:

Review and approval of legal content and form of a fiscal note summary prepared pursuant to Section 116.175, RSMo, concerning a proposed constitutional amendment passed by the Missouri General Assembly (Senate Joint Resolution No. 1) to reauthorize for ten years the one-tenth percent sales/use tax for soil and water conservation and state parks and historic sites and to submit this issue to a vote every ten years or at an earlier special election.

Honorable Claire C. McCaskill Missouri State Auditor 224 State Capitol Building Jefferson City, MO 65101.

JEREMIAH W. (JAY) NIXON, Attorney General.

Dear Auditor McCaskill:

This office received your letter of August 16, 2006, submitting a revised fiscal note and fiscal note summary prepared under Section 116.175, RSMo, for an initiative petition, submitted by Patrick Tuohey (version 2), to add a new Article XIV to the Constitution of Missouri relating to state spending. The fiscal note summary that you submitted is as follows:

The estimated fiscal impact on state government is approximately $280 million for fiscal year 2008. The impact on state government for future years is unknown. The impact on local government is unknown.

Under Section 116.175, we approve the legal content and form of the fiscal note summary. Because our review of the fiscal note summary is mandated by statute, no action that we take with respect to such review should be construed as an endorsement of the petition or as the expression of any view regarding the objectives of its proponents.

Very truly yours,