Florida Senate - 2013                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1830
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             04/24/2013 09:44 AM       .                                
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       Senator Simpson moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 207 and 208
    4  insert:
    5         Section 5. Subsection (7) of section 193.461, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         193.461 Agricultural lands; classification and assessment;
    8  mandated eradication or quarantine program.—
    9         (7) Lands classified for assessment purposes as
   10  agricultural lands which are taken out of production by a any
   11  state or federal eradication or quarantine program, or which are
   12  converted to serve a water retention or attenuation purpose,
   13  shall continue to be classified as agricultural lands for the
   14  duration of such program or use or successor programs. Lands
   15  under these programs which are converted to fallow, or otherwise
   16  nonincome-producing uses shall continue to be classified as
   17  agricultural lands and shall be assessed at a de minimis value
   18  of up to no more than $50 per acre, on a single year assessment
   19  methodology; however, lands converted to other income-producing
   20  agricultural uses permissible under such programs shall be
   21  assessed pursuant to this section. Land under a mandated
   22  eradication or quarantine program which is diverted from an
   23  agricultural to a nonagricultural use shall be assessed under s.
   24  193.011.
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   27         And the title is amended as follows:
   28         Between lines 18 and 19
   29  insert:
   30         193.461, F.S.; providing that agricultural land that
   31         is converted to serve a water retention or attenuation
   32         purpose shall continue to be classified as
   33         agricultural land for tax assessment purposes;
   34         amending s.