Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SJR 658
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Budget (Simmons) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Substitute Amendment (891718) (with
    2  ballot and title amendments)
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    6         Delete lines 36 - 51
    7  and insert:
    8  changed annually on January 1 1st of each year. A change in an
    9  assessment may; but those changes in assessments shall not
   10  exceed the lower of the following:
   11         a. Three percent (3%) of the assessment for the prior year.
   12         b. The percent change in the Consumer Price Index for all
   13  urban consumers, U.S. City Average, all items 1967=100, or a
   14  successor index reports for the preceding calendar year as
   15  initially reported by the United States Department of Labor,
   16  Bureau of Labor Statistics.
   17         Delete lines 143 - 147
   18  and insert:
   19         percent (10%) of the assessment for the prior year.
   20         Delete lines 166 - 170
   21  and insert:
   22         percent (10%) of the assessment for the prior year.
   23         Delete lines 335 - 338
   24  and insert:
   25         SECTION 32. Property assessments.—This section and the
   26  amendment of Section 4 of Article VII reducing the limit on the
   27  maximum annual increase in the
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   30         And the ballot statement is amended as follows:
   31         Delete lines 370 - 380.
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   34         And the title is amended as follows:
   35         Delete lines 425 - 428
   36  and insert:
   37         the State Constitution to reduce