Florida Senate - 2021                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 406
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (Rodrigues)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 49 - 75
    4  and insert:
    5  basin boundary may include only counties that have at least 25
    6  percent of their jurisdiction delineated within the boundary If
    7  the governing board shall fail to establish the initial
    8  boundaries on or before December 31, 1976, the initial
    9  boundaries shall be the same boundaries as described for the Big
   10  Cypress Basin of the Ridge and Lower Gulf Coast District.
   11         (c) The governing board of the South Florida Water
   12  Management District subsequently may change the boundaries of
   13  the basin, but may not abolish the basin.
   14         Section 2. Paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of section
   15  373.503, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   16         373.503 Manner of taxation.—
   17         (3) The districts may levy ad valorem taxes on property
   18  within the district solely for the purposes of this chapter and
   19  of chapter 25270, 1949, Laws of Florida, as amended, and chapter
   20  61-691, Laws of Florida, as amended. If appropriate, taxes
   21  levied by each governing board may be separated by the governing
   22  board into a millage necessary for the purposes of the district
   23  and a millage necessary for financing basin functions specified
   24  in s. 373.0695.
   25         (b) The apportionment in The South Florida Water Management
   26  District shall ensure that:
   27         1. The apportionment within the district is be a maximum of
   28  40 percent for district purposes and a maximum of 60 percent for
   29  basin purposes; and
   30         2. The ad valorem taxes levied within the counties that
   31  comprise the Big Cypress Basin are used for projects and flood
   32  control operations and maintenance within the
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   35  And the title is amended as follows:
   36         Delete line 11
   37  and insert:
   38         the Big Cypress Basin be used for projects and flood
   39         control operations and maintenance within the