Florida Senate Bill 218 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 9 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-09 - Died in Commerce and Tourism
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requiring that persons who engage in certain business activities related to transient rentals collect the tax; providing definitions; authorizing the Department of Revenue to adopt rules to exclude certain charges from the definition of the terms "total rent" or "total consideration"; requiring certain persons to report and remit the tax on certain transient rentals; providing requirements, procedures, and limitations; requiring the Department of Revenue to provide for an amnesty for certain unpaid taxes, penalties, and interest; providing criteria for qualifying for the amnesty; providing exclusions from application of the amnesty; authorizing the department to adopt emergency rules to implement the amnesty; providing for the effective period of such rules, etc.

Tax on Transient Rentals

Sen. Evelyn Lynn [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-09		Died in Commerce and Tourism
2012-01-10		Introduced -SJ 24
2011-09-21		Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Community Affairs; Budget -SJ 24
2011-09-14		Filed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
212	03		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/218
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0218/BillText/Filed/HTML