Bill Text: FL H0889 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: County Government Funding

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-07 - Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration [H0889 Detail]

Download: Florida-2011-H0889-Introduced.html

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HB 889

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to county government funding; creating s.
3	125.595, F.S.; providing circumstances under which a board
4	of county commissioners may use certain revenues for a
5	purpose other than that specified by law; defining the
6	term "eligible county"; specifying that county eligibility
7	must be determined annually and exercised for a limited
8	time; prohibiting the use of certain revenues for such
9	purposes; providing an effective date.
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11	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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13	Section 1.  Section 125.595, Florida Statutes, is created
14	to read:
15	125.595  Economic distress flexibility.-
16	(1)  The board of county commissioners of an eligible
17	county may, by a two-thirds vote of the membership of the board,
18	use revenues from distributions of state taxes to the county or
19	from taxes authorized by the Legislature to be imposed by the
20	county for a purpose other than that specified in the law
21	providing for the distributions or authorizing the imposition of
22	the taxes.
23	(2)  As used in this section, the term "eligible county"
24	means a county that meets three of the following criteria, as
25	determined by the Office of Economic and Demographic Research:
26	(a)  The just value of property subject to ad valorem tax
27	as of January 1 was lower than it was on the previous January 1.
28	(b)  The annual per capita personal income of the county
29	for the most recent calendar year was lower than for the prior
30	calendar year.
31	(c)  State sales tax remitted from within the county during
32	the most recent calendar year was less than during the prior
33	calendar year.
34	(d)  The unemployment rate in the county in the previous
35	calendar year was greater than 8 percent.
36	(e)  The county was included in a major federal disaster or
37	emergency declaration in the previous calendar year.
38	(3)  The determination that a county is an eligible county
39	must be made each year, and the authority granted under this
40	section may only be exercised one fiscal year at a time.
41	(4)  The authority granted under this section does not
42	apply to revenues that may only be used for a purpose specified
43	in the State Constitution or to revenues from taxes levied with
44	the approval of the voters.
45	Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.

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