Section 13 General

• Library: Tax Law 2009

The so-called “state mandate” provision of the Hancock Amendment (or Hancock), Mo. Const. art. X, §§ 16–24, found in article X, §§ 16 and 21, of the Missouri Constitution prohibits the state from (1) reducing its proportion of the funding of local activities from the level of funding in effect at the time Hancock was passed on November 4, 1980, or (2) requiring local governments to provide new or additional activities or services without the state agreeing to pay the additional costs. Section 16 provides...