Senate Bill 0238c1

    Florida Senate - 2000                            CS for SB 238

    By the Committee on Fiscal Resource and Senator Horne





    314-2223-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to revenue for school

  3         construction; amending s. 125.01, F.S.;

  4         limiting the ability of counties to levy school

  5         impact fees; providing for the distribution to

  6         school boards of certain funds appropriated in

  7         the General Appropriations Act; providing for

  8         uses of appropriated funds; providing an

  9         effective date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  Subsection (8) is added to section 125.01,

14  Florida Statutes, to read:

15         125.01  Powers and duties.--

16         (8)(a)  Counties are prohibited from levying any impact

17  fee for school purposes in an amount in excess of 37.5 percent

18  of any school impact fee which that county adopted by county

19  ordinance prior to May 1, 1999. If in any year the Legislature

20  appropriates an amount less than 62.5 percent of the total

21  impact-fee-for-school-purposes revenue collected in fiscal

22  year 1999-2000, a county may increase the county levied

23  portion to make up the difference.

24         (b)  State funds appropriated in lieu of impact fees

25  adopted by county ordinance prior to May 1, 1999 may be used

26  for the same purposes as impact fees for school purposes

27  levied by a county.

28         Section 2.  Funds appropriated in the General

29  Appropriation Act for the replacement of school impact fees

30  shall be distributed by the Department of Education to school

31  boards on a pro-rata basis based on the amount of school

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    Florida Senate - 2000                            CS for SB 238
    314-2223-00




  1  impact fees which were enacted by county ordinance prior to

  2  May 1, 1999, and collected during the 1999-2000 fiscal year.

  3         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2000.

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  5          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  6                              SB 238

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  8  The committee substitute for SB 238 amends s. 125.01, F.S., to
    prohibit counties from levying any impact fee for school
  9  purposes in an amount in excess of 37.5% of any school impact
    fee which that county adopted by county ordinance prior to May
10  1, 1999. If in any year the Legislature appropriates an amount
    less than 62.5 percent of the total impact-fee-for-school-
11  purposes revenue that was collected in 1999-2000, a county may
    increase the county levied portion to make up the difference.
12  The committee substitute also provides that appropriated funds
    may be used for the same purposes as impact fees levied by the
13  county. In addition, the committee substitute specifies that
    funds allocated in the General Appropriation Act for the
14  replacement of school impact fees shall be distribute to
    county school boards by the Department of Education "on a
15  pro-rata basis based on the amount of school impact fees which
    were enacted by county ordinance prior to May 1, 1999, and
16  collected during the 1999-2000 fiscal year."

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