Florida Senate - 2019                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 710
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/21/2019           .                                
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       The Committee on Community Affairs (Baxley) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 53 - 91
    4  and insert:
    5  the petition late. A late-filed petition must be filed within 55
    6  days after the mailing of the notice by the property appraiser.
    7         Section 2. Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section
    8  194.032, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    9         194.032 Hearing purposes; timetable.—
   10         (2)(a) The clerk of the governing body of the county shall
   11  prepare a schedule of appearances before the board based on
   12  petitions timely filed with him or her. The clerk shall notify
   13  each petitioner of the scheduled time of his or her appearance
   14  at least 25 calendar days before the day of the scheduled
   15  appearance. The notice must indicate whether the petition has
   16  been scheduled to be heard at a particular time or during a
   17  block of time. If the petition has been scheduled to be heard
   18  within a block of time, the beginning and ending of that block
   19  of time must be indicated on the notice; however, as provided in
   20  paragraph (b), a petitioner may not be required to wait for more
   21  than a reasonable time, not to exceed 2 hours, after the
   22  beginning of the block of time. The property appraiser must
   23  provide a copy of the property record card containing
   24  information relevant to the computation of the current
   25  assessment, with confidential information redacted, to the
   26  petitioner upon receipt of the petition from the clerk
   27  regardless of whether the petitioner initiates evidence
   28  exchange, unless the property record card is available online
   29  from the property appraiser, in which case the property
   30  appraiser must notify the petitioner that the property record
   31  card is available online. The petitioner and the property
   32  appraiser may each reschedule the hearing a single time for good
   33  cause. As used in this paragraph, the term “good cause” means
   34  circumstances beyond the control of the person seeking to
   35  reschedule the hearing which reasonably prevent the party from
   36  having adequate representation at the hearing. However, for a
   37  county in which the number of petitions filed exceeds 5,000 in
   38  any year, the term does not include being scheduled for two
   39  separate hearings in different jurisdictions at the same time or
   40  on the same date, unless the hearings involve the same
   41  petitioner or property appraiser and the petitioner agrees to
   42  reschedule the hearing. If the hearing is rescheduled by the
   43  petitioner or the property appraiser, the clerk shall notify the
   44  petitioner of the rescheduled time of his or her appearance at
   45  least 15 calendar days before the day of the rescheduled
   46  appearance, unless this notice is waived by both parties. For
   47  counties in which the number of petitions filed exceeds 5,000 in
   48  any year, before the value adjustment board begins its hearings
   49  for the year, the clerk may request that the property appraiser
   50  and the petitioner identify up to 10 business days each on which
   51  he or she is unavailable for hearing.
   52  
   53  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   54  And the title is amended as follows:
   55         Delete line 10
   56  and insert:
   57         circumstances in certain counties; authorizing clerks
   58         of county governing bodies of such counties, within a
   59         certain timeframe, to request property appraisers and
   60         petitioners to identify certain dates of
   61         unavailability for hearing; providing an effective
   62         date.