Florida Senate - 2017                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SJR 76
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/22/2017           .                                
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Finance and Tax (Lee) recommended
       the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with ballot and title amendments)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the resolving clause
    4  and insert:
    5         That the following amendment to Section 27 of Article XII
    6  of the State Constitution is agreed to and shall be submitted to
    7  the electors of this state for approval or rejection at the next
    8  general election:
    9                             ARTICLE XII                           
   10                              SCHEDULE                             
   11         SECTION 27. Property tax exemptions and limitations on
   12  property tax assessments.—
   13         (a) The amendments to Sections 3, 4, and 6 of Article VII,
   14  providing a $25,000 exemption for tangible personal property,
   15  providing an additional $25,000 homestead exemption, authorizing
   16  transfer of the accrued benefit from the limitations on the
   17  assessment of homestead property, and this section, if submitted
   18  to the electors of this state for approval or rejection at a
   19  special election authorized by law to be held on January 29,
   20  2008, shall take effect upon approval by the electors and shall
   21  operate retroactively to January 1, 2008, or, if submitted to
   22  the electors of this state for approval or rejection at the next
   23  general election, shall take effect January 1 of the year
   24  following such general election. The amendments to Section 4 of
   25  Article VII creating subsections (g) (f) and (h) (g) of that
   26  section, creating a limitation on annual assessment increases
   27  for specified real property, shall take effect upon approval of
   28  the electors and shall first limit assessments beginning January
   29  1, 2009, if approved at a special election held on January 29,
   30  2008, or shall first limit assessments beginning January 1,
   31  2010, if approved at the general election held in November of
   32  2008. Subsections (f) and (g) of Section 4 of Article VII are
   33  repealed effective January 1, 2019; however, the legislature
   34  shall by joint resolution propose an amendment abrogating the
   35  repeal of subsections (f) and (g), which shall be submitted to
   36  the electors of this state for approval or rejection at the
   37  general election of 2018 and, if approved, shall take effect
   38  January 1, 2019.
   39         (b) The amendment to subsection (a) abrogating the
   40  scheduled repeal of subsections (g) and (h) of Section 4 of
   41  Article VII of the State Constitution as it existed in 2017,
   42  shall take effect January 1, 2019.
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   44  ====== B A L L O T  S T A T E M E N T  A M E N D M E N T ======
   45  And the ballot statement is amended as follows:
   46         Delete everything after the resolving clause
   47  and insert:
   48                      CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT                     
   49                       ARTICLE XII, SECTION 27                     
   50         LIMITATIONS ON PROPERTY TAX ASSESSMENTS.—Proposing an
   51  amendment to the State Constitution to retain provisions adopted
   52  in 2008 that limit increases in assessments, except for school
   53  district levies, of specified nonhomestead real property, to 10
   54  percent each year. If approved, the amendment removes the
   55  scheduled repeal of such provisions in 2019 and shall take
   56  effect January 1, 2019.
   57  
   58  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   59  And the title is amended as follows:
   60         Delete everything before the resolving clause
   61  and insert:
   62                        A bill to be entitled                      
   63         A joint resolution proposing an amendment to Section
   64         27 of Article XII of the State Constitution to remove
   65         a future repeal of provisions in Section 4 of Article
   66         VII that limit the amount of annual increases in
   67         assessments, except for school district levies, of
   68         specified nonhomestead real property.