Florida Senate - 2007 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for SJR 2-D
Barcode 730440
CHAMBER ACTION
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11 Senator Deutch moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
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17 SECTION 8. Aid to local governments.--
18 (a) State funds may be appropriated to the several
19 counties, school districts, municipalities or special
20 districts upon such conditions as may be provided by general
21 law. These conditions may include the use of relative ad
22 valorem assessment levels determined by a state agency
23 designated by general law.
24 (b) By general law, the legislature may establish
25 conditions precedent to the receipt of local government
26 half-cent sales tax revenues, but only to the extent such
27 half-cent sales tax revenues are not pledged to retire debt.
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31 And the directory clause is amended as follows:
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Florida Senate - 2007 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for SJR 2-D
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4 That the following amendments to Sections 3, 4, 6, 8,
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9 And the title is amended as follows:
10 On page 1 lines 3-21, delete those lines
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13 Sections 3, 4, 6, 8, and 9 of Article VII and
14 Section 1 of Article VIII and the creation of
15 Sections 27 and 28 of Article XII of the State
16 Constitution, to require an exemption from ad
17 valorem taxation for tangible personal
18 property, to provide for the transfer of the
19 accrued benefit from the limitation on the
20 assessed value of homestead property, to
21 provide for assessing rent-restricted
22 affordable housing and commercial and
23 public-access waterfront property by general
24 law, to increase the homestead exemption, to
25 create an additional homestead exemption for
26 first-time homestead property owners, to
27 provide an additional homestead exemption for
28 low-income seniors, to appropriate state funds
29 to counties, school districts, municipalities,
30 or special districts, to authorize the
31 Legislature to establish precedent to the
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