| 1 | Representative Cretul offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Between lines 837 and 838 insert: |
| 5 | Section 12. Section 163.31801, Florida Statutes, is |
| 6 | created to read: |
| 7 | 163.31801 Impact fees; short title; intent; minimum |
| 8 | requirements; audits; credits.-- |
| 9 | (1) SHORT TITLE.--This section may be cited as the |
| 10 | "Florida Impact Fee Act." |
| 11 | (2) FINDINGS AND INTENT.--The Legislature finds that |
| 12 | impact fees are an important source of revenue for local |
| 13 | governments to fund the infrastructure necessitated by new |
| 14 | growth. The Legislature further finds that impact fees are an |
| 15 | outgrowth of local governments' home rule powers to provide |
| 16 | certain services within their jurisdictions. Due to the growth |
| 17 | of impact fee collections and local governments' reliance on |
| 18 | impact fees to fund infrastructure necessitated by new growth, |
| 19 | it is the intent of the Legislature to ensure that when a county |
| 20 | or municipality enacts an impact fee by ordinance, or a special |
| 21 | district enacts an impact fee by resolution, the governing |
| 22 | authority complies with this section. |
| 23 | (3) MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS.--An impact fee ordinance or |
| 24 | resolution must: |
| 25 | (a) Premise its impact fee calculations upon the most |
| 26 | recent and localized data. |
| 27 | (b) Significantly address affordable housing by either |
| 28 | waiving, exempting, deferring, or paying impact fees for |
| 29 | affordable housing units out of another revenue source. |
| 30 | (c) Provide for accounting and reporting of impact fee |
| 31 | collections and expenditures. Specifically, each local |
| 32 | governmental entity that imposes an impact fee to address |
| 33 | infrastructure needs shall account for the revenues and |
| 34 | expenditures of each impact fee within a separate accounting |
| 35 | fund. |
| 36 | (d) Limit administrative charges for impact fee |
| 37 | collections to actual cost. |
| 38 | (e) Provide notice of not less than 90 days before the |
| 39 | effective date of a new impact fee ordinance or resolution or an |
| 40 | amendment to an existing impact fee ordinance or resolution. |
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| 43 | Remove line(s) 59 and insert: |
| 44 | certain conditions; creating s. 163.31801, F.S.; creating |
| 45 | the "Florida Impact Fee Act"; providing legislative |
| 46 | intent; requiring that an impact fee meet specified |
| 47 | requirements; providing an effective date. |