Bill Text: FL S0296 | 2019 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: District Millage Elections

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2019-05-03 - Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Education [S0296 Detail]

Download: Florida-2019-S0296-Comm_Sub.html

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       Florida Senate - 2019                              CS for SB 296
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Education; and Senator Montford
       
       
       
       
       
       581-03499-19                                           2019296c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to district millage elections;
    3         amending s. 1011.71, F.S.; increasing the maximum
    4         number of years for which a specified millage may be
    5         levied; deleting obsolete language; amending s.
    6         1011.73, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made
    7         by the act; providing an effective date.
    8          
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Subsection (9) of section 1011.71, Florida
   12  Statutes, is amended to read:
   13         1011.71 District school tax.—
   14         (9) In addition to the maximum millage levied under this
   15  section and the General Appropriations Act, a school district
   16  may levy, by local referendum or in a general election,
   17  additional millage for school operational purposes up to an
   18  amount that, when combined with nonvoted millage levied under
   19  this section, does not exceed the 10-mill limit established in
   20  s. 9(b), Art. VII of the State Constitution. Any such levy must
   21  shall be for a maximum of 10 4 years and must shall be counted
   22  as part of the 10-mill limit established in s. 9(b), Art. VII of
   23  the State Constitution. Millage elections conducted under the
   24  authority granted pursuant to this section are subject to s.
   25  1011.73. Funds generated by such additional millage do not
   26  become a part of the calculation of the Florida Education
   27  Finance Program total potential funds and may in 2001-2002 or
   28  any subsequent year and must not be incorporated in the
   29  calculation of any hold-harmless or other component of the
   30  Florida Education Finance Program formula in any year. If an
   31  increase in required local effort, when added to existing
   32  millage levied under the 10-mill limit, would result in a
   33  combined millage in excess of the 10-mill limit, any millage
   34  levied pursuant to this subsection must shall be considered to
   35  be required local effort to the extent that the district millage
   36  would otherwise exceed the 10-mill limit.
   37         Section 2. Subsection (2) of section 1011.73, Florida
   38  Statutes, is amended to read:
   39         1011.73 District millage elections.—
   40         (2) MILLAGE AUTHORIZED NOT TO EXCEED 10 4 YEARS.—The
   41  district school board, pursuant to resolution adopted at a
   42  regular meeting, shall direct the county commissioners to call
   43  an election at which the electors within the school district may
   44  approve an ad valorem tax millage as authorized under s.
   45  1011.71(9). Such election may be held at any time, except that
   46  not more than one such election may shall be held during any 12
   47  month period. Any millage so authorized must shall be levied for
   48  a period not to exceed 10 in excess of 4 years or until changed
   49  by another millage election, whichever is earlier. If any such
   50  election is invalidated by a court of competent jurisdiction,
   51  such invalidated election must shall be considered not to have
   52  been held.
   53         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.