Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1182
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  02/24/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Budget Subcommittee on Finance and Tax (Norman)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2         Delete lines 583 - 600
    3  and insert:
    4         423.02 Housing projects exempted from taxes and
    5  assessments; payments in lieu thereof.—The housing projects,
    6  including all property of housing authorities used for or in
    7  connection therewith or appurtenant thereto, of housing
    8  authorities are shall be exempt from all taxes and special
    9  assessments of the state or any city, town, county, or political
   10  subdivision of the state., provided, However, that in lieu of
   11  such taxes or special assessments, a housing authority may agree
   12  to make payments to any city, town, county, or political
   13  subdivision of the state for services, improvements, or
   14  facilities furnished by such city, town, county, or political
   15  subdivision for the benefit of a housing project owned by the
   16  housing authority, but in no event shall such payments may not
   17  exceed the estimated cost to such city, town, county or
   18  political subdivision of the services, improvements, or
   19  facilities to be so furnished by the city, town, county, or
   20  political subdivision of the state. This section does not exempt
   21  the activities or property of a person that provides essential
   22  commercial goods and services; however, the real property of a
   23  housing authority which is used to provide access to essential
   24  commercial goods and services is exempt from ad valorem taxes
   25  and special assessments.
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   28         And the title is amended as follows:
   29         Delete lines 36 - 40
   30  and insert:
   31         income; amending s. 423.02, F.S.; clarifying that
   32         activities or property of certain persons is not
   33         exempt from taxes and special assessments; providing
   34         that real property of a housing authority which is
   35         used to provide access to essential commercial goods
   36         and services is exempt from ad valorem taxes and
   37         special assessments; providing organizational and