Bill Text: FL S1222 | 2016 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

Florida Senate Bill 1222 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Millage Rates

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (? 2-1)

Status: (Failed) 2016-03-11 - Died in Appropriations [S1222 Detail]

Download: Florida-2016-S1222-Comm_Sub.html

       Florida Senate - 2016                             CS for SB 1222
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Community Affairs; and Senator Flores
       
       578-02871-16                                          20161222c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to millage rates; amending s. 200.065,
    3         F.S.; revising the maximum millage rate that a county,
    4         a municipality, a special district dependent to a
    5         county or municipality, a municipal service taxing
    6         unit, or an independent special district may levy;
    7         revising the conditions under which a higher rate may
    8         be adopted; providing an effective date.
    9          
   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   11  
   12         Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (5) of section
   13  200.065, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   14         200.065 Method of fixing millage.—
   15         (5) In each fiscal year:
   16         (a) The maximum millage rate that a county, municipality,
   17  special district dependent to a county or municipality,
   18  municipal service taxing unit, or independent special district
   19  may levy is a rolled-back rate based on the amount of taxes
   20  actually which would have been levied in the prior year if the
   21  maximum millage rate had been applied, adjusted for change in
   22  per capita Florida personal income, unless the change in per
   23  capita Florida personal income is negative a higher rate was
   24  adopted, in which case the maximum is the rolled-back adopted
   25  rate. The maximum millage rate applicable to a county authorized
   26  to levy a county public hospital surtax under s. 212.055 and
   27  which did so in fiscal year 2007 shall exclude the revenues
   28  required to be contributed to the county public general hospital
   29  in the current fiscal year for the purposes of making the
   30  maximum millage rate calculation, but shall be added back to the
   31  maximum millage rate allowed after the roll back has been
   32  applied, the total of which shall be considered the maximum
   33  millage rate for such a county for purposes of this subsection.
   34  The revenue required to be contributed to the county public
   35  general hospital for the upcoming fiscal year shall be
   36  calculated as 11.873 percent times the millage rate levied for
   37  countywide purposes in fiscal year 2007 times 95 percent of the
   38  preliminary tax roll for the upcoming fiscal year. A higher rate
   39  may be adopted only under the following conditions:
   40         1. A rate of not more than 110 percent of the rolled-back
   41  rate based on the amount of taxes actually levied in the prior
   42  year previous year’s maximum millage rate, adjusted for change
   43  in per capita Florida personal income, may be adopted if
   44  approved by a two-thirds vote of the membership of the governing
   45  body of the county, municipality, or independent district; or
   46         2. A rate in excess of 110 percent may be adopted if
   47  approved by a unanimous vote of the membership of the governing
   48  body of the county, municipality, or independent district or by
   49  a three-fourths vote of the membership of the governing body if
   50  the governing body has nine or more members, or if the rate is
   51  approved by a referendum.
   52  
   53  Any unit of government operating under a home rule charter
   54  adopted pursuant to ss. 10, 11, and 24, Art. VIII of the State
   55  Constitution of 1885, as preserved by s. 6(e), Art. VIII of the
   56  State Constitution of 1968, which is granted the authority in
   57  the State Constitution to exercise all the powers conferred now
   58  or hereafter by general law upon municipalities and which
   59  exercises such powers in the unincorporated area shall be
   60  recognized as a municipality under this subsection. For a
   61  downtown development authority established before the effective
   62  date of the 1968 State Constitution which has a millage that
   63  must be approved by a municipality, the governing body of that
   64  municipality shall be considered the governing body of the
   65  downtown development authority for purposes of this subsection.
   66         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.