| 1 | Representative Lopez-Cantera offered the following: | 
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) | 
| 4 | Between lines 4633and 4634 insert: | 
| 5 | Section 47.  Subsection (3) of section 170.01, Florida | 
| 6 | Statutes, is amended to read: | 
| 7 | 170.01  Authority for providing improvements and levying | 
| 8 | and collecting special assessments against property benefited.-- | 
| 9 | (3)(a)  Any municipality, subject to the approval of a | 
| 10 | majority of the affected property owners who actually vote in | 
| 11 | the required vote, may levy and collect special assessments | 
| 12 | against property benefited for the purpose of stabilizing and | 
| 13 | improving: | 
| 14 | 1. (a)Retail business districts, | 
| 15 | 2. (b)Wholesale business districts, or | 
| 16 | 3. (c)Nationally recognized historic districts, | 
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| 18 | or any combination of such districts, through promotion, | 
| 19 | management, marketing, and other similar services in such | 
| 20 | districts of the municipality. This paragraph subsectiondoes | 
| 21 | not authorize a municipality to use bond proceeds to fund | 
| 22 | ongoing operations of these districts. | 
| 23 | (b)  Any municipality may determine in its resolution | 
| 24 | required to declare special assessments pursuant to s. 170.03 | 
| 25 | that the vote of affected property owners shall be conducted | 
| 26 | either: | 
| 27 | 1.  By voting by tax folio numbers of affected properties; | 
| 28 | or | 
| 29 | 2.  By voting by total square footage of the affected | 
| 30 | properties. | 
| 31 | Section 48.  If any provision of this act or the | 
| 32 | application thereof to any person or circumstance is held | 
| 33 | invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or | 
| 34 | applications of the act which can be given effect without the | 
| 35 | invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions | 
| 36 | of this act are declared severable. | 
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| 43 | T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T | 
| 44 | Remove line 264 and insert: | 
| 45 | requiring a report; amending s. 170.01, F.S.; revising | 
| 46 | provisions with respect to the authority of a municipality to | 
| 47 | levy and collect special assessments against certain property | 
| 48 | for the purpose of providing specified local municipal | 
| 49 | improvements; providing severability; repealing s. 420.9078, | 
| 50 | F.S., relating | 
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