Florida Senate - 2024 CS for SB 1322
By the Committee on Finance and Tax; and Senator Ingoglia
593-03123-24 20241322c1
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to millage rates; amending s. 200.065,
3 F.S.; prohibiting certain increases in the millage
4 rate from going into effect until it has been approved
5 by a specified vote; providing an effective date.
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7 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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9 Section 1. Paragraph (c) is added to subsection (5) of
10 section 200.065, Florida Statutes, to read:
11 200.065 Method of fixing millage.—
12 (5) In each fiscal year:
13 (c) Except as provided in subparagraph (a)2., the previous
14 millage rate may only be increased if approved by a two-thirds
15 vote of the membership of the governing body of the county,
16 municipality, or independent district.
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18 Any unit of government operating under a home rule charter
19 adopted pursuant to ss. 10, 11, and 24, Art. VIII of the State
20 Constitution of 1885, as preserved by s. 6(e), Art. VIII of the
21 State Constitution, which is granted the authority in the State
22 Constitution to exercise all the powers conferred now or
23 hereafter by general law upon municipalities and which exercises
24 such powers in the unincorporated area shall be recognized as a
25 municipality under this subsection. For a downtown development
26 authority established before the effective date of the State
27 Constitution which has a millage that must be approved by a
28 municipality, the governing body of that municipality shall be
29 considered the governing body of the downtown development
30 authority for purposes of this subsection.
31 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.