HB 0237 2003
1	CHAMBER ACTION
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6	The Committee on Appropriations recommends the following:
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8	Committee Substitute
9	Remove the entire bill and insert:
10	A bill to be entitled
11	An act relating to municipal parking facility space
12	surcharges; creating s. 166.271, F.S.; authorizing certain
13	municipalities to impose and collect a surcharge on
14	certain parking facility space sale, lease, or rental
15	charges; requiring referendum approval; providing for a
16	maximum surcharge rate; providing an exception; providing
17	a limitation; specifying uses and limits of surcharge
18	proceeds; providing for local administration of the
19	surcharge; 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 166.271, Florida Statutes, is created
24	to read:
25	166.271 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 the surcharge shall not take effect while
38	any surcharge imposed pursuant to s. 218.503(5)(a) is in effect.
39	(2) A municipal governing authority that imposes the
40	surcharge authorized by this section may use the proceeds of
41	such surcharge for the following purposes only:
42	(a) No less than 60 percent and no more than 80 percent of
43	surcharge proceeds shall be used to reduce the municipality’s ad
44	valorem tax millage or to reduce or eliminate non-ad valorem
45	assessments, unless the municipality has previously used the
46	proceeds from the surcharge levied under s. 218.503(5)(b) to
47	reduce the municipality’s ad valorem tax millage or to reduce
48	non-ad valorem assessments.
49	(b) No more than 40 percent and no less than 20 percent of
50	surcharge proceeds shall be used to improve transportation,
51	including, but not limited to, street, sidewalk, roadway,
52	landscape, transit, and streetscape beautification improvements.
53	These designated surcharge proceeds shall be used in downtown or
54	urban core areas. Downtown or urban core areas shall be
55	coterminous with any downtown development district established
56	pursuant to s. 166.0497 or chapter 65-1090, Laws of Florida.
57	Alternatively, any eligible local governmental entity may
58	identify the downtown or urban core area as any contiguous area
59	consisting of lands where the predominant acreage is designated
60	as commercial or its substantial equivalent pursuant to the
61	local government comprehensive plan or other implementing land
62	development regulations.
63	(3) Any municipality imposing a surcharge authorized by
64	this section shall administer the surcharge locally and should
65	provide for brackets applicable to transactions subject to the
66	surcharge.
67	Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.