Bill Text: FL S1216 | 2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Children's Services [SPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Messages, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/SB 2014 (Ch. 2010-210) [S1216 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S1216-Comm_Sub.html

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       Florida Senate - 2010                      CS for CS for SB 1216 
        
       By the Committees on Community Affairs; and Children, Families, 
       and Elder Affairs; and Senators Negron, Baker, Haridopolos, 
       Richter, Thrasher, Dean, Gaetz, Wise, Fasano, Gardiner, and 
       Storms 
       578-04327-10                                          20101216c2 
    1                        A bill to be entitled                       
    2         An act relating to children’s services; amending s. 
    3         125.901, F.S.; requiring the governing body of the 
    4         county to submit to the electorate the question of 
    5         retention or dissolution of a special taxing district 
    6         created to provide funding for children’s services; 
    7         prescribing a schedule for submission of the question 
    8         to the electorate; providing for the application of 
    9         the act to certain special districts in existence 
   10         before and after the act’s effective date; providing 
   11         an effective date. 
   12   
   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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   15         Section 1. Subsection (4) of section 125.901, Florida 
   16  Statutes, is amended to read: 
   17         125.901 Children’s services; independent special district; 
   18  council; powers, duties, and functions; public records 
   19  exemption.— 
   20         (4)(a) Any district created pursuant to the provisions of 
   21  this section may be dissolved by a special act of the 
   22  Legislature, or the county governing body may by ordinance 
   23  dissolve the district subject to the approval of the electorate. 
   24         (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), the governing body of 
   25  the county shall submit the question of retention or dissolution 
   26  of the district to the electorate in the general election 
   27  according to the following schedule and every 6 years 
   28  thereafter: 
   29         1. For a district for which the most recent referendum by 
   30  the electorate on its taxing authority was held in 1990 or 
   31  before.....................................................2010. 
   32         2. For a district for which the most recent referendum by 
   33  the electorate on its taxing authority was held after 1990 but 
   34  before 2001................................................2012. 
   35         3. For a district for which the most recent referendum by 
   36  the electorate on its taxing authority was held after 2000 but 
   37  before 2010................................................2018. 
   38         4. For a district whose taxing authority is initially 
   39  authorized by referendum by the electorate in 2010 or later, 6 
   40  years after the authorization. 
   41   
   42  If any district is dissolved pursuant to the provisions of this 
   43  subsection, each county must shall first obligate itself to 
   44  assume the debts, liabilities, contracts, and outstanding 
   45  obligations of the district within the total millage available 
   46  to the county governing body for all county and municipal 
   47  purposes as provided for under s. 9, Art. VII of the State 
   48  Constitution. Any district may also be dissolved pursuant to the 
   49  provisions of s. 189.4042. 
   50         Section 2. Notwithstanding s. 31 of chapter 90-288, Laws of 
   51  Florida, the revisions made by this act to s. 125.901, Florida 
   52  Statutes, apply to any special district having taxing authority 
   53  to provide funding for children’s services, and governed by a 
   54  council on children’s services, which is in existence on the 
   55  effective date of this act and to any such district created on 
   56  or after the effective date of this act. 
   57         Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.