Florida Senate - 2007 SENATOR AMENDMENT
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11 Senator Webster moved the following substitute for amendment
12 (053228):
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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16 page 13, line 21, delete those lines
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19 (5) Beginning in the 2009-2010 fiscal year and in each
20 year thereafter:
21 (a) The maximum millage rate that a county,
22 municipality, special district dependent to a county or
23 municipality, municipal service taxing unit, or independent
24 special district may levy is a rolled-back rate based on the
25 amount of taxes which would have been levied in the prior year
26 if the maximum millage rate had been applied, adjusted for
27 growth in per capita Florida personal income, unless a higher
28 rate is adopted, in which case the maximum is the adopted
29 rate. The maximum millage rate applicable to a county
30 authorized to levy a county public hospital surtax under s.
31 212.055 shall exclude the revenues required to be contributed
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1 to the county public general hospital for the purposes of
2 making the maximum millage rate calculation, but shall be
3 added back to the maximum millage rate allowed after the roll
4 back has been applied. A higher rate may be adopted only under
5 the following conditions:
6 1. A rate of not more than 110 percent of the
7 rolled-back rate based on the previous year's maximum millage
8 rate, adjusted for growth in per capita Florida personal
9 income, may be adopted if approved by a two-thirds vote of the
10 governing body of the county, municipality, or independent
11 district; or
12 2. A rate in excess of 110 percent may be adopted if
13 approved by a unanimous vote of the governing body of the
14 county, municipality, or independent district or if the rate
15 is approved by a referendum.
16 (b) The millage rate of a county or municipality,
17 municipal service taxing unit of that county, and any special
18 district dependent to that county or municipality may exceed
19 the maximum millage rate calculated pursuant to this
20 subsection if the total county ad valorem taxes levied or
21 total municipal ad valorem taxes levied do not exceed the
22 maximum total county ad valorem taxes levied or maximum total
23 municipal ad valorem taxes levied respectively. Voted millage
24 and taxes levied by a municipality or independent special
25 district that has levied ad valorem taxes for less than 5
26 years are not subject to this limitation. Total taxes levied
27 may exceed the maximum calculated pursuant to subsection (6)
28 as a result of an increase in taxable value above that
29 certified in subsection (1) if such increase is less than the
30 percentage amounts contained in subsection (6); however, if
31 such increase in taxable value exceeds the percentage amounts
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1 contained in this subsection, millage rates subject to
2 subsection (6), s. 200.185, or s. 200.186 must be reduced so
3 that total taxes levied do not exceed the maximum.
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5 Any unit of government operating under a home rule charter
6 adopted pursuant to ss. 10, 11, and 24, Art. VIII of the State
7 Constitution of 1885, as preserved by s. 6(e), Art. VIII of
8 the State Constitution of 1968, which is granted the authority
9 in the State Constitution to exercise all the powers conferred
10 now or hereafter by general law upon municipalities and which
11 exercises such powers in the unincorporated area shall be
12 recognized as a municipality under this subsection.
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16 And the title is amended as follows:
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20 providing an exception for calculating the
21 rolled-back rate for certain counties;
22 recognizing that certain governmental units are
23 municipalities;
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