Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SJR 1550
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: FAV            .                                
                  04/07/2009           .                                
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       The Committee on Ethics and Elections (Rich) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Substitute for Amendment (704084) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Delete lines 88 - 98
    5  and insert:
    6         (f) By general law and subject to the conditions specified
    7  therein, each person who receives a homestead exemption as
    8  provided in section 6 of this article; who was a member of the
    9  United States military or military reserves, the United States
   10  Coast Guard or its reserves, or the Florida National Guard; and
   11  who received hostile-fire pay while deployed in support of
   12  military operations on active duty outside the continental
   13  United States, Alaska, or Hawaii during the preceding calendar
   14  year shall receive an additional exemption equal to a percentage
   15  of the taxable value of his or her homestead property. The
   16  applicable percentage shall be calculated as the number of days
   17  during the preceding calendar year the person received hostile
   18  fire pay divided by the number of days in that year.
   19         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following statement be
   20  placed on the ballot:
   21                      CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT                     
   22                       ARTICLE VII, SECTION 6                      
   23         DISABLED VETERAN’S PROPERTY TAX DISCOUNT; HOMESTEAD
   24  EXEMPTION FOR MEMBERS OF MILITARY RECEIVING HOSTILE-FIRE PAY.
   25  The State Constitution provides a property tax discount on the
   26  homesteads of veterans who became disabled as the result of a
   27  combat injury and provides to certain persons an exemption, up
   28  to a specified value, of the person’s homestead from taxation.
   29  This proposed amendment expands the availability of the property
   30  tax discount to veterans who became disabled as the result of a
   31  combat injury, but who were not Florida residents when they
   32  entered the military, and authorizes the Legislature to provide
   33  an additional homestead exemption for members of the United
   34  States military who are deployed overseas and receive hostile
   35  fire pay.
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   37  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   38         And the title is amended as follows:
   39         Delete line 6
   40  and insert:
   41  when they entered the military and to provide an additional
   42  homestead exemption to certain persons.