Florida Senate - 2018                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
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       Senator Gibson moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (434678) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Delete lines 440 - 459
    5  and insert:
    6         Section 13. Section 423.02, Florida Statutes, is amended to
    7  read:
    8         423.02 Housing projects exempted from taxes and
    9  assessments; payments in lieu thereof.—The housing projects,
   10  including all property of housing authorities used for or in
   11  connection therewith or appurtenant thereto, of housing
   12  authorities, or their nonprofit instrumentalities as authorized
   13  by s. 421.08(8), shall be exempt from all taxes and special
   14  assessments of the state or any city, town, county, or political
   15  subdivision of the state, provided, however, that in lieu of
   16  such taxes or special assessments, a housing authority or its
   17  nonprofit instrumentality may agree to make payments to any
   18  city, town, county, or political subdivision of the state for
   19  services, improvements, or facilities furnished by such city,
   20  town, county, or political subdivision for the benefit of a
   21  housing project owned by the housing authority or its nonprofit
   22  instrumentality, but in no event shall such payments exceed the
   23  estimated cost to such city, town, county, or political
   24  subdivision of the services, improvements, or facilities to be
   25  so furnished. A city, town, county, or political subdivision of
   26  the state may not rename, modify terminology, or otherwise
   27  change a tax or assessment with the intent to circumvent the
   28  exemption provided under this section, which must be interpreted
   29  broadly to protect housing authorities or their nonprofit
   30  instrumentalities from taxation or assessment.
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   33  And the title is amended as follows:
   34         Delete lines 573 - 586
   35  and insert:
   36         amending s. 423.02, F.S.; exempting certain nonprofit
   37         instrumentalities from all taxes and special
   38         assessments of the state or any city, town, county, or
   39         political subdivision of the state; authorizing such a
   40         nonprofit instrumentality to agree to make payments to
   41         any city, town, county, or political subdivision of
   42         the state for services, improvements, or facilities
   43         furnished by such city, town, county, or political
   44         subdivision for the benefit of a certain housing
   45         project; prohibiting a city, town, county, or
   46         political subdivision of the state from renaming,
   47         modifying terminology, or otherwise changing a tax or
   48         assessment with the intent to circumvent the exemption
   49         provided under this section; providing construction;
   50         creating s. 553.7923, F.S.;