Florida Senate - 2010                             CS for SB 1216
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; and
       Senators Negron, Baker, Haridopolos, Richter, Thrasher, Dean,
       Gaetz, Wise, Fasano, Gardiner, and Storms
       
       
       586-03220-10                                          20101216c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to children’s services; amending s.
    3         125.901, F.S.; requiring the governing body of the
    4         county to submit to the electorate the question of
    5         retention or dissolution of a special taxing district
    6         created to provide funding for children’s services;
    7         prescribing a schedule for submission of the question
    8         to the electorate; providing for the application of
    9         the act to certain special districts in existence
   10         before and after the act’s effective date; providing
   11         an effective date.
   12  
   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   14  
   15         Section 1. Subsection (4) of section 125.901, Florida
   16  Statutes, is amended to read:
   17         125.901 Children’s services; independent special district;
   18  council; powers, duties, and functions; public records
   19  exemption.—
   20         (4)(a) Any district created pursuant to the provisions of
   21  this section may be dissolved by a special act of the
   22  Legislature, or the county governing body may by ordinance
   23  dissolve the district subject to the approval of the electorate.
   24         (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), the governing body of
   25  the county shall submit the question of retention or dissolution
   26  of the district to the electorate in the August primary election
   27  according to the following schedule and every 6 years
   28  thereafter:
   29         1. For a district for which the most recent referendum by
   30  the electorate on its taxing authority was held in 1990 or
   31  before.....................................................2010.
   32         2. For a district for which the most recent referendum by
   33  the electorate on its taxing authority was held after 1990 but
   34  before 2001................................................2012.
   35         3. For a district for which the most recent referendum by
   36  the electorate on its taxing authority was held after 2000 but
   37  before 2010................................................2018.
   38         4. For a district whose taxing authority is initially
   39  authorized by referendum by the electorate in 2010 or later, 6
   40  years after the authorization.
   41  
   42  If any district is dissolved pursuant to the provisions of this
   43  subsection, each county must shall first obligate itself to
   44  assume the debts, liabilities, contracts, and outstanding
   45  obligations of the district within the total millage available
   46  to the county governing body for all county and municipal
   47  purposes as provided for under s. 9, Art. VII of the State
   48  Constitution. Any district may also be dissolved pursuant to the
   49  provisions of s. 189.4042.
   50         Section 2. Notwithstanding s. 31 of chapter 90-288, Laws of
   51  Florida, the revisions made by this act to s. 125.901, Florida
   52  Statutes, apply to any special district having taxing authority
   53  to provide funding for children’s services, and governed by a
   54  council on children’s services, which is in existence on the
   55  effective date of this act and to any such district created on
   56  or after the effective date of this act.
   57         Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.