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Senate Bill 0556

    By Senator Forman





    32-530A-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the confidentiality of

  3         taxpayers' applications to repay their

  4         delinquent personal property taxes in

  5         installments; providing for future review and

  6         repeal; providing a justification for this

  7         exemption from public records provisions;

  8         providing a contingent effective date.

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10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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12         Section 1.  A taxpayer's application to participate in

13  an installment payment program for the payment of delinquent

14  personal property taxes, as created under section 197.4155,

15  Florida Statutes, is a confidential return as provided in

16  section 193.074, Florida Statutes. This exemption from section

17  119.07(1), Florida Statutes, and Section 24(a), Article I of

18  the State Constitution is subject to the Open Government

19  Sunset Review Act of 1995 in accordance with section 119.15,

20  Florida Statutes, and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2003,

21  unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by

22  the Legislature.

23         Section 2.  The exemption from section 119.07, Florida

24  Statutes, and from section 24(a) of Article I of the State

25  Constitution which is provided under section 1 of this act is

26  a public necessity because the information contained in the

27  exempted application is information that previously would have

28  been filed on a confidential return. To make this information

29  public, therefore, would be to violate confidentiality that

30  has already been established and, furthermore, would perhaps

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    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 556
    32-530A-98




  1  discourage delinquent taxpayers from undertaking installment

  2  payments and discharging their respective tax debts.

  3         Section 3.  This act shall take effect upon the

  4  effective date of SB    , which provides for implementing an

  5  installment payment program for the payment of delinquent

  6  personal property taxes.

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10    Provides for the confidentiality of taxpayers'
      applications to pay their delinquent personal property
11    taxes in installments. Provides for future review and
      repeal. Provides a justification for the exemption from
12    s. 119.07, F.S., and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State
      Constitution.
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