Florida Senate - 2016 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 1222
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: RCS .
02/01/2016 .
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The Committee on Community Affairs (Bradley) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete everything after the enacting clause
4 and insert:
5 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (5) of section
6 200.065, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
7 200.065 Method of fixing millage.—
8 (5) In each fiscal year:
9 (a) The maximum millage rate that a county, municipality,
10 special district dependent to a county or municipality,
11 municipal service taxing unit, or independent special district
12 may levy is a rolled-back rate based on the amount of taxes
13 actually which would have been levied in the prior year if the
14 maximum millage rate had been applied, adjusted for change in
15 per capita Florida personal income, unless the change in per
16 capita Florida personal income is negative a higher rate was
17 adopted, in which case the maximum is the rolled-back adopted
18 rate. The maximum millage rate applicable to a county authorized
19 to levy a county public hospital surtax under s. 212.055 and
20 which did so in fiscal year 2007 shall exclude the revenues
21 required to be contributed to the county public general hospital
22 in the current fiscal year for the purposes of making the
23 maximum millage rate calculation, but shall be added back to the
24 maximum millage rate allowed after the roll back has been
25 applied, the total of which shall be considered the maximum
26 millage rate for such a county for purposes of this subsection.
27 The revenue required to be contributed to the county public
28 general hospital for the upcoming fiscal year shall be
29 calculated as 11.873 percent times the millage rate levied for
30 countywide purposes in fiscal year 2007 times 95 percent of the
31 preliminary tax roll for the upcoming fiscal year. A higher rate
32 may be adopted only under the following conditions:
33 1. A rate of not more than 110 percent of the rolled-back
34 rate based on the amount of taxes actually levied in the prior
35 year previous year’s maximum millage rate, adjusted for change
36 in per capita Florida personal income, may be adopted if
37 approved by a two-thirds vote of the membership of the governing
38 body of the county, municipality, or independent district; or
39 2. A rate in excess of 110 percent may be adopted if
40 approved by a unanimous vote of the membership of the governing
41 body of the county, municipality, or independent district or by
42 a three-fourths vote of the membership of the governing body if
43 the governing body has nine or more members, or if the rate is
44 approved by a referendum.
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46 Any unit of government operating under a home rule charter
47 adopted pursuant to ss. 10, 11, and 24, Art. VIII of the State
48 Constitution of 1885, as preserved by s. 6(e), Art. VIII of the
49 State Constitution of 1968, which is granted the authority in
50 the State Constitution to exercise all the powers conferred now
51 or hereafter by general law upon municipalities and which
52 exercises such powers in the unincorporated area shall be
53 recognized as a municipality under this subsection. For a
54 downtown development authority established before the effective
55 date of the 1968 State Constitution which has a millage that
56 must be approved by a municipality, the governing body of that
57 municipality shall be considered the governing body of the
58 downtown development authority for purposes of this subsection.
59 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.
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61 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================
62 And the title is amended as follows:
63 Delete everything before the enacting clause
64 and insert:
65 A bill to be entitled
66 An act relating to millage rates; amending s. 200.065,
67 F.S.; revising the maximum millage rate that a county,
68 a municipality, a special district dependent to a
69 county or municipality, a municipal service taxing
70 unit, or an independent special district may levy;
71 revising the conditions under which a higher rate may
72 be adopted; providing an effective date.