The Florida Senate

SB 1234: Special Assessment for Law Enforcement Services

GENERAL BILL by Smith

Special Assessment for Law Enforcement Services; Authorizes a municipality to impose a special assessment to fund the costs of providing law enforcement services. Makes the imposition of the assessment contingent upon adoption of an ordinance approved by the governing body of a municipality and a reduction in the municipality's ad valorem millage. Limits the maximum millage reduction required. Specifies the rolled-back rate for the calculation of a future increase in ad valorem millage. Provides for the construction of the act as a general law authorizing taxation by a municipality.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  2/18/2011	Senate	• Filed
  3/7/2011	Senate	• Referred to Community Affairs; Criminal Justice; Budget -SJ 92
  3/8/2011	Senate	• Introduced -SJ 92
  3/16/2011	Senate	• On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 03/21/11, 10:15 am, 412 Knott Building
  3/21/2011	Senate	• Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 -SJ 235 • Now in Criminal Justice -SJ 235
  5/7/2011	Senate	• Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration • Died in Criminal Justice

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• SB 1234, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 2/18/2011 at 11:36 AM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	Community Affairs (Pre-Meeting) 3/18/2011 (pdf) Community Affairs (Post-Meeting) 3/21/2011 (pdf)

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location	Track Bills
  H 743	Special Assessment for Law Enforcement Services	Rogers	Identical	Last Action: 5/7/2011 H Died in Finance and Tax Committee Location: In committee/council (FTC)

  Committee Votes (1)

  Date	Committee	Result
  3/21/2011 10:15 AM	Community Affairs	9 Yeas - 0 Nays

  Citations - Statutes (1)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  166.212		Page 1 (pdf)

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