| 1 | Representative(s) Cannon offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Remove lines 308-348 and insert: |
| 5 | (5) Beginning in the 2009-2010 fiscal year and in each |
| 6 | year thereafter: |
| 7 | (a) The maximum millage rate that a county, municipality, |
| 8 | special district dependent to a county or municipality, |
| 9 | municipal service taxing unit, or independent special district |
| 10 | may levy is a rolled-back rate based on the amount of taxes |
| 11 | which would have been levied in the prior year if the maximum |
| 12 | millage rate had been applied, adjusted for growth in per capita |
| 13 | Florida personal income, unless a higher rate is adopted, in |
| 14 | which case the maximum is the adopted rate. The maximum millage |
| 15 | rate applicable to a county authorized to levy a county public |
| 16 | hospital surtax under s. 212.055 shall exclude the revenues |
| 17 | required to be contributed to the county public general hospital |
| 18 | for the purposes of making the maximum millage rate calculation, |
| 19 | but shall be added back to the maximum millage rate allowed |
| 20 | after the roll back has been applied. A higher rate may be |
| 21 | adopted only under the following conditions: |
| 22 | 1. A rate of not more than 110 percent of the rolled-back |
| 23 | rate based on the previous year's maximum millage rate, adjusted |
| 24 | for growth in per capita Florida personal income, may be adopted |
| 25 | if approved by a two-thirds vote of the governing body of the |
| 26 | county, municipality, or independent district; or |
| 27 | 2. A rate in excess of 110 percent may be adopted if |
| 28 | approved by a unanimous vote of the governing body of the |
| 29 | county, municipality, or independent district or if the rate is |
| 30 | approved by a referendum. |
| 31 | (b) The millage rate of a county or municipality, |
| 32 | municipal service taxing unit of that county, and any special |
| 33 | district dependent to that county or municipality may exceed the |
| 34 | maximum millage rate calculated pursuant to this subsection if |
| 35 | the total county ad valorem taxes levied or total municipal ad |
| 36 | valorem taxes levied do not exceed the maximum total county ad |
| 37 | valorem taxes levied or maximum total municipal ad valorem taxes |
| 38 | levied respectively. Voted millage and taxes levied by a |
| 39 | municipality or independent special district that has levied ad |
| 40 | valorem taxes for less than 5 years are not subject to this |
| 41 | limitation. Total taxes levied may exceed the maximum calculated |
| 42 | pursuant to subsection (6) as a result of an increase in taxable |
| 43 | value above that certified in subsection (1) if such increase is |
| 44 | less than the percentage amounts contained in subsection (6); |
| 45 | however, if such increase in taxable value exceeds the |
| 46 | percentage amounts contained in this subsection, millage rates |
| 47 | subject to subsection (5), s. 200.185, or s. 200.186 must be |
| 48 | reduced so that total taxes levied do not exceed the maximum. |
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| 50 | Any unit of government operating under a home rule charter |
| 51 | adopted pursuant to ss. 10, 11, and 24, Art. VIII of the State |
| 52 | Constitution of 1885, as preserved by s. 6(e), Art. VIII of the |
| 53 | State Constitution of 1968, which is granted the authority in |
| 54 | the State Constitution to exercise all the powers conferred now |
| 55 | or hereafter by general law upon municipalities and which |
| 56 | exercises such powers in the unincorporated area shall be |
| 57 | recognized as a municipality under this subsection. |
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| 61 | Remove line 13 and insert: |
| 62 | year; providing an exception for calculating the rolled-back |
| 63 | rate for certain counties; recognizing that certain governmental |
| 64 | units are municipalities; providing for higher millage rates if |
| 65 | adopted by |