Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SJR 400
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/10/2015           .                                
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       The Committee on Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities
       (Bradley) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 290 - 305
    4  and insert:
    5  shall take effect on January 1, 2017, and shall expire on
    6  December 31, 2036. Upon expiration, this section shall be
    7  repealed and the text of subsection (e) of Section 3 of Article
    8  VII and subsection (i) of Section 4 of Article VII shall revert
    9  to that in existence on December 31, 2016, except that any
   10  amendments to such text otherwise adopted shall be preserved and
   11  continue to operate to the extent that such amendments are not
   12  dependent upon the portions of text which expire pursuant to
   13  this section.
   14         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following statement be
   15  placed on the ballot:
   16                      CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT                     
   17                    ARTICLE VII, SECTIONS 3 AND 4                  
   18                       ARTICLE XII, SECTION 34                     
   19         RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE DEVICES AND COMPONENTS THEREOF;
   20  EXEMPTION FROM CERTAIN TAXATION AND ASSESSMENT.—Proposing an
   21  amendment to the State Constitution to require the Legislature
   22  to exempt the assessed value of a renewable energy source device
   23  or component thereof from the tangible personal property tax and
   24  allow the Legislature to prohibit consideration of the
   25  installation of such device or component in determining the
   26  assessed value of all real property for the purpose of ad
   27  valorem taxation. This amendment takes effect January 1, 2017,
   28  and expires on December 31, 2036.
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   30  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   31  And the title is amended as follows:
   32         Delete lines 12 - 13
   33  and insert:
   34         the purpose of ad valorem taxation, and to provide
   35         effective and expiration dates.