Florida Senate - 2024                             CS for SB 1322
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Finance and Tax; and Senator Ingoglia
       
       
       
       
       
       593-03123-24                                          20241322c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to millage rates; amending s. 200.065,
    3         F.S.; prohibiting certain increases in the millage
    4         rate from going into effect until it has been approved
    5         by a 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) Except as provided in subparagraph (a)2., the previous
   14  millage rate may only be increased if approved by a two-thirds
   15  vote of the membership of the governing body of the county,
   16  municipality, or independent district.
   17  
   18  Any unit of government operating under a home rule charter
   19  adopted pursuant to ss. 10, 11, and 24, Art. VIII of the State
   20  Constitution of 1885, as preserved by s. 6(e), Art. VIII of the
   21  State Constitution, which is granted the authority in the State
   22  Constitution to exercise all the powers conferred now or
   23  hereafter by general law upon municipalities and which exercises
   24  such powers in the unincorporated area shall be recognized as a
   25  municipality under this subsection. For a downtown development
   26  authority established before the effective date of the State
   27  Constitution which has a millage that must be approved by a
   28  municipality, the governing body of that municipality shall be
   29  considered the governing body of the downtown development
   30  authority for purposes of this subsection.
   31         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.