Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SJR 658
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  05/18/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Judiciary (Richter) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Substitute Amendment (891718) (with
    2  ballot amendment)
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    4         Delete lines 142 - 147
    5  and insert:
    6  but those changes in assessments may shall not exceed 5 ten
    7  percent (10%) of the assessment for the prior year. The
    8  legislature may provide by general law that an assessment may
    9  not increase if the just value of the property is less than the
   10  just value of the property on the preceding date of assessment
   11  provided by law.
   12  
   13         Delete lines 165 - 170
   14  and insert:
   15  but those changes in assessments may shall not exceed 5 ten
   16  percent (10%) of the assessment for the prior year. The
   17  legislature may provide by general law that an assessment may
   18  not increase if the just value of the property is less than the
   19  just value of the property on the preceding date of assessment
   20  provided by law.
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   22         Delete lines 336 - 339
   23  and insert:
   24  amendment to Section 4 of Article VII protecting homestead
   25  property having a declining just value and reducing the limit on
   26  the maximum annual increase in the assessed value of
   27  nonhomestead property from 10 percent to 5
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   29  ====== B A L L O T  S T A T E M E N T  A M E N D M E N T ======
   30         And the ballot statement is amended as follows:
   31         Delete line 381
   32  and insert:
   33         (2) This amendment reduces from 10 percent to 5 percent the