Florida Senate - 2024                                    SB 1322
       
       
        
       By Senator Ingoglia
       
       
       
       
       
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    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to millage rates; amending s. 200.065,
    3         F.S.; prohibiting any increase in the millage rate
    4         from going into effect until it has been approved by a
    5         specified vote; providing an effective date.
    6          
    7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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    9         Section 1. Paragraph (c) is added to subsection (5) of
   10  section 200.065, Florida Statutes, to read:
   11         200.065 Method of fixing millage.—
   12         (5) In each fiscal year:
   13         (c) The previous millage rate may only be increased if
   14  approved by a two-thirds vote of the membership of the governing
   15  body of the county, municipality, or independent district.
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   17  Any unit of government operating under a home rule charter
   18  adopted pursuant to ss. 10, 11, and 24, Art. VIII of the State
   19  Constitution of 1885, as preserved by s. 6(e), Art. VIII of the
   20  State Constitution, which is granted the authority in the State
   21  Constitution to exercise all the powers conferred now or
   22  hereafter by general law upon municipalities and which exercises
   23  such powers in the unincorporated area shall be recognized as a
   24  municipality under this subsection. For a downtown development
   25  authority established before the effective date of the State
   26  Constitution which has a millage that must be approved by a
   27  municipality, the governing body of that municipality shall be
   28  considered the governing body of the downtown development
   29  authority for purposes of this subsection.
   30         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.