HB 0237 2003
1	CHAMBER ACTION
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6	The Committee on Local Government & Veterans' Affairs recommends
7	the following:
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9	Committee Substitute
10	Remove the entire bill and insert:
11	A bill to be entitled
12	An act relating to municipal parking facility space
13	surcharges; creating s. 212.035, F.S.; authorizing certain
14	municipalities to impose and collect a surcharge on
15	certain parking facility space sale, lease, or rental
16	charges; requiring referendum approval; providing for a
17	maximum surcharge rate; providing an exception; providing
18	a limitation; specifying uses and limits of surcharge
19	proceeds; providing an effective date.
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21	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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23	Section 1. Section 212.035, Florida Statutes, is created
24	to read:
25	212.035 Surcharge on municipal facility parking fees.--
26	(1) The governing authority of any municipality with a
27	resident population of 200,000 or more, more than 20 percent of
28	the real property of which is exempt from ad valorem taxes, and
29	which is located in a county with a population of more than
30	500,000 may impose and collect, subject to referendum approval
31	by voters in the municipality, a discretionary per-vehicle
32	surcharge of up to 15 percent of the amount charged for the
33	sale, lease, or rental of space at parking facilities within the
34	municipality that are open for use to the general public and
35	that are not airports, seaports, county administration
36	buildings, or other projects as defined under ss. 125.011 and
37	125.015, provided that this surcharge shall not take effect
38	while any surcharge imposed pursuant to s. 218.503(5)(a), is in
39	effect.
40	(2) A municipal governing authority that imposes the
41	surcharge authorized by this section may use the proceeds of
42	such surcharge for the following purposes only:
43	(a) No less than 60 percent and no more than 80 percent of
44	surcharge proceeds shall be used to reduce the municipality’s ad
45	valorem tax millage or to reduce or eliminate non-ad valorem
46	assessments.
47	(b) Not more than 40 percent and not less than 20 percent
48	of surcharge proceeds shall be used to improve transportation
49	including, but not limited to, street, sidewalk, roadway,
50	landscape, transit, and streetscape beautification improvements.
51	Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.