Florida Senate - 2009                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1580
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                Floor: 1/AD/2R         .                                
             04/28/2009 02:30 PM       .                                
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       Senator Ring moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 59 and 60
    4  insert:
    5         Section 3. The amendment to s. 196.192, Florida Statutes,
    6  made by section 2 of chapter 2008-193, Laws of Florida, shall
    7  operate retroactively to January 1, 2005.
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   10         And the title is amended as follows:
   11         Delete lines 2 - 14
   12  and insert:
   13  An act relating to ad valorem taxation; defining the term
   14  “partial payment”; authorizing tax collectors to accept partial
   15  payment of taxes under certain circumstances; imposing a
   16  processing fee on a partial tax payment; requiring a tax
   17  collector to mail a notice of the remaining amount due after the
   18  payment of a partial payment; providing a deadline for payment
   19  of the remaining balance; authorizing a tax collector to treat
   20  certain underpayment as full payment; providing for the
   21  distribution of partial tax payments; amending s. 197.343, F.S.;
   22  revising a tax notice to warn taxpayers that a tax certificate
   23  will be sold if their property taxes are not paid in full;
   24  providing for a provision exempting property owned by an
   25  educational institution from ad valorem taxation to apply
   26  retroactively to January 1, 2005;