HOUSE AMENDMENT Bill No. HB 1907
1	CHAMBER ACTION
2	Senate House
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12	Representatives Russell, Fiorentino, and Bilirakis offered the
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15	Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
16	Between lines 866 and 867, insert:
17	(f) Counties and municipalities shall not use the surtax
18	proceeds to supplant or replace user fees or to reduce ad
19	valorem taxes existing prior to the levy of the surtax
20	authorized by this subsection.
21	(f)(g)1. Notwithstanding paragraph (d), a county that has
22	a population of 50,000 or less on April 1, 1992, or any county
23	designated as an area of critical state concern on the effective
24	date of this act, and that imposed the surtax before July 1,
25	1992, may use the proceeds and interest of the surtax for any
26	public purpose if:
27	a. The debt service obligations for any year are met;
28	b. The county's comprehensive plan has been determined to
29	be in compliance with part II of chapter 163; and
30	c. The county has adopted an amendment to the surtax
31	ordinance pursuant to the procedure provided in s. 125.66
32	authorizing additional uses of the surtax proceeds and interest.
33	2. A municipality located within a county that has a
34	population of 50,000 or less on April 1, 1992, or within a
35	county designated as an area of critical state concern on the
36	effective date of this act, and that imposed the surtax before
37	July 1, 1992, may not use the proceeds and interest of the
38	surtax for any purpose other than an infrastructure purpose
39	authorized in paragraph (d) unless the municipality's
40	comprehensive plan has been determined to be in compliance with
41	part II of chapter 163 and the municipality has adopted an
42	amendment to its surtax ordinance or resolution pursuant to the
43	procedure provided in s. 166.041 authorizing additional uses of
44	the surtax proceeds and interest. Such municipality may expend
45	the surtax proceeds and interest for any public purpose
46	authorized in the amendment.
47	3. Those counties designated as an area of critical state
48	concern which qualify to use the surtax for any public purpose
49	may use only up to 10 percent of the surtax proceeds for any
50	public purpose other than for infrastructure purposes authorized
51	by this section.
52	(g)(h)Notwithstanding paragraph (d), a county in which 40
53	percent or more of the just value of real property is exempt or
54	immune from ad valorem taxation, and the municipalities within
55	such a county, may use the proceeds and interest of the surtax
56	for operation and maintenance of parks and recreation programs
57	and facilities established with the proceeds of the surtax.
58	(h)(i)Notwithstanding any other provision of this
59	section, a county shall not levy local option sales surtaxes
60	authorized in this subsection and subsections (3), (4), and (5)
61	in excess of a combined rate of 1 percent.
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64	Remove lines 797 and 798, and insert:
65	Section 19. Paragraphs (d), (f), (g), (h), and (i) of
66	subsection (2) of section 212.055, Florida Statutes, are amended
67	to read:
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69	Remove line 63, and insert:
70	circumstances; deleting a prohibition against using surtax
71	proceeds to supplant or replace certain user fees or reduce ad
72	valorem taxes; amending s. 212.0606, F.S., relating to the
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