Florida Senate - 2018                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1328
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and
       Economic Development (Gibson) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 509 and 510
    4  insert:
    5         Section 14. Section 423.02, Florida Statutes, is amended to
    6  read:
    7         423.02 Housing projects exempted from taxes, user fees, and
    8  assessments; payments in lieu thereof.—The housing projects,
    9  including all property of housing authorities used for or in
   10  connection therewith or appurtenant thereto, of housing
   11  authorities, or their nonprofit instrumentalities as authorized
   12  by s. 421.08(8), shall be exempt from all taxes, user fees, and
   13  special assessments of the state or any city, town, county, or
   14  political subdivision of the state, provided, however, that in
   15  lieu of such taxes, user fees, or special assessments, a housing
   16  authority or its nonprofit instrumentality may agree to make
   17  payments to any city, town, county, or political subdivision of
   18  the state for services, improvements, or facilities furnished by
   19  such city, town, county, or political subdivision for the
   20  benefit of a housing project owned by the housing authority or
   21  its nonprofit instrumentality, but in no event shall such
   22  payments exceed the estimated cost to such city, town, county,
   23  or political subdivision of the services, improvements, or
   24  facilities to be so furnished.
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   27  And the title is amended as follows:
   28         Between lines 43 and 44
   29  insert:
   30         amending s. 423.02, F.S.; exempting housing projects,
   31         including certain property, of housing authorities or
   32         their nonprofit instrumentalities from all taxes, user
   33         fees, and special assessments of the state or any
   34         city, town, county, or political subdivision of the
   35         state; providing that, in lieu of such taxes, user
   36         fees, or special assessments, a housing authority or
   37         its nonprofit instrumentality may agree to make
   38         payments to any city, town, county, or political
   39         subdivision of the state for services, improvements,
   40         or facilities furnished by such city, town, county, or
   41         political subdivision for the benefit of a housing
   42         project owned by the housing authority or its
   43         nonprofit instrumentality;