Florida Senate - 2012         (PROPOSED COMMITTEE BILL) SPB 7002
       
       
       
       FOR CONSIDERATION By the Committee on Community Affairs
       
       
       
       
       578-00417-12                                          20127002__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to laws requiring counties or
    3         municipalities to spend funds or limiting their
    4         ability to raise revenue or receive state tax revenue;
    5         defining the term “insignificant fiscal impact”;
    6         requiring that certain criteria be used in determining
    7         whether a law has an insignificant fiscal impact on
    8         counties and municipalities; providing an effective
    9         date.
   10  
   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   12  
   13         Section 1. Laws requiring counties or municipalities to
   14  spend funds or limiting their ability to raise revenue or
   15  receive state tax revenue.—Section 18(d), Article VII of the
   16  State Constitution creates an exemption from the section’s
   17  limitations on local government mandates for laws that have an
   18  insignificant fiscal impact. For purposes of the exemption, the
   19  term “insignificant fiscal impact” means an annual amount equal
   20  to or less than 10 cents multiplied by the latest resident
   21  population estimate on April 1 by the Florida Demographic
   22  Estimating Conference for the applicable state fiscal year. In
   23  determining whether the fiscal impact of a law exceeds an
   24  insignificant fiscal impact, the average annual fiscal impact of
   25  the law, including any average annual revenues or savings that
   26  the law may create, must be taken into consideration.
   27         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.