Florida Senate - 2007 SENATOR AMENDMENT
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CHAMBER ACTION
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11 Senators Margolis, Deutch, Atwater, and Rich moved the
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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16 page 21, line 21, delete those lines
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19 (2)(a) The maximum millage rate that a county, a
20 municipal service taxing unit of that county, or a special
21 district dependent to that county other than a dependent fire
22 or library district, which would be treated as if it were an
23 independent special district, may levy by a majority vote of
24 the governing body for the 2007-2008 fiscal year shall be
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26 1. For any county of special financial concern for
27 which the compound annual growth rate in total county ad
28 valorem taxes levied, as defined in s. 200.001, per capita
29 from fiscal year 2001-2002 to fiscal year 2006-2007 was no
30 more than 5 percent, 100 percent of the rolled-back rate, as
31 calculated under s. 200.065;
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1 2. For any county not included in subparagraph 1. for
2 which the compound annual growth in total county ad valorem
3 taxes levied, as defined in s. 200.001, per capita from fiscal
4 year 2001-2002 to fiscal year 2006-2007 was no more than 7
5 percent, or, notwithstanding subparagraphs 3., 4., and 5., any
6 county that is a county of special financial concern not
7 included in subparagraph 1., 97 percent of the rolled-back
8 rate, as calculated under s. 200.065;
9 3. For any county for which the compound annual growth
10 in total county ad valorem taxes levied, as defined in s.
11 200.001, per capita from fiscal year 2001-2002 to fiscal year
12 2006-2007 was greater than 7 percent but no more than 9
13 percent, 95 percent of the rolled-back rate, as calculated
14 under s. 200.065;
15 4. For any county for which the compound annual growth
16 in total county ad valorem taxes levied, as defined in s.
17 200.001, per capita from fiscal year 2001-2002 to fiscal year
18 2006-2007 was greater than 9 percent but no more than 11
19 percent, 93 percent of the rolled-back rate, as calculated
20 under s. 200.065;
21 5. For any county for which the compound annual growth
22 in total county ad valorem taxes levied, as defined in s.
23 200.001, per capita from fiscal year 2001-2002 to fiscal year
24 2006-2007 was greater than 11 percent, 91 percent of the
25 rolled-back rate, as calculated under s. 200.065;
26 6. For a county authorized to levy a county public
27 hospital surtax under s. 212.055, the maximum millage rate
28 shall exclude the revenues required to be contributed to the
29 county public general hospital for the purposes of making the
30 maximum millage rate calculation, but shall be added back to
31 the maximum millage rate allowed after the applicable
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1 percentage of the rolled-back rate as provided in
2 subparagraphs 1. through 5. has been applied; or
3 7. Any unit of government operating under a home rule
4 charter adopted pursuant to ss. 10, 11, and 24, Art. VIII of
5 the State Constitution of 1885, as preserved by s. 6(e), Art.
6 VIII of the State Constitution of 1968, which is granted the
7 authority in the State Constitution to exercise all the powers
8 conferred now or hereafter by general law upon municipalities
9 and which exercises such powers in the unincorporated area
10 shall be recognized as a municipality under this section.
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14 And the title is amended as follows:
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18 providing an exception for calculating the
19 rolled-back rate for certain counties;
20 providing that certain units of government are
21 recognized as municipalities;
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