Florida Senate - 2015                                     SB 752
       
       
        
       By Senator Hukill
       
       
       
       
       
       8-00720-15                                             2015752__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the redevelopment trust fund;
    3         amending s. 163.387, F.S.; adding certain hospital
    4         districts to the list of public bodies or taxing
    5         authorities that are exempt from appropriating certain
    6         revenues to the redevelopment trust fund; reenacting
    7         s. 259.042(9), F.S., to incorporate the amendment made
    8         to s. 163.387, F.S., in a reference thereto; providing
    9         an effective date.
   10          
   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   12  
   13         Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section
   14  163.387, Florida Statutes, is republished, and paragraph (c) of
   15  that subsection is amended, to read:
   16         163.387 Redevelopment trust fund.—
   17         (2)(a) Except for the purpose of funding the trust fund
   18  pursuant to subsection (3), upon the adoption of an ordinance
   19  providing for funding of the redevelopment trust fund as
   20  provided in this section, each taxing authority shall, by
   21  January 1 of each year, appropriate to the trust fund for so
   22  long as any indebtedness pledging increment revenues to the
   23  payment thereof is outstanding (but not to exceed 30 years) a
   24  sum that is no less than the increment as defined and determined
   25  in subsection (1) or paragraph (3)(b) accruing to such taxing
   26  authority. If the community redevelopment plan is amended or
   27  modified pursuant to s. 163.361(1), each such taxing authority
   28  shall make the annual appropriation for a period not to exceed
   29  30 years after the date the governing body amends the plan but
   30  no later than 60 years after the fiscal year in which the plan
   31  was initially approved or adopted. However, for any agency
   32  created on or after July 1, 2002, each taxing authority shall
   33  make the annual appropriation for a period not to exceed 40
   34  years after the fiscal year in which the initial community
   35  redevelopment plan is approved or adopted.
   36         (c) The following public bodies or taxing authorities are
   37  exempt from paragraph (a):
   38         1. A special district that levies ad valorem taxes on
   39  taxable real property in more than one county.
   40         2. A special district for which the sole available source
   41  of revenue the district has the authority to levy is ad valorem
   42  taxes at the time an ordinance is adopted under this section.
   43  However, revenues or aid that may be dispensed or appropriated
   44  to a district as defined in s. 388.011 at the discretion of an
   45  entity other than such district shall not be deemed available.
   46         3. A library district, except a library district in a
   47  jurisdiction where the community redevelopment agency had
   48  validated bonds as of April 30, 1984.
   49         4. A neighborhood improvement district created under the
   50  Safe Neighborhoods Act.
   51         5. A metropolitan transportation authority.
   52         6. A water management district created under s. 373.069.
   53         7. For a community redevelopment area created after July 1,
   54  2015, a hospital district that is a special district as defined
   55  in s. 189.012.
   56         Section 2. Subsection (9) of s. 259.042, Florida Statutes,
   57  is reenacted for the purpose of incorporating the amendment made
   58  by this act to s. 163.387, Florida Statutes, in a reference
   59  thereto.
   60         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.