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202.3 Changes the Public ServiceTax to a sales and use- <br /> based tax. <br /> <br />~2.4 Provides a t~x structure that is equitable and fair for <br /> consumers and is competitively neutral for businesses. <br /> <br />202.5 Provides uniform definitions of taxable goods and <br /> services. <br /> <br />202.6 <br /> <br />Maintains the Home Rule powers of municipalities <br />to enforce negotiated rights set forth in existing <br />franchise agreements to purchase and operate <br />electric utility distribution systems. <br /> <br />202.7 Requires all tax exemptions to be tied to measurable <br /> benefits and subject to periodic sunset review. <br /> <br />202.8 <br /> <br />Corrects the inequalities caused by the double <br />taxation of municipal citizens, as originally intended <br />by the framers of the Florida Constitution. <br /> <br />202.9 <br /> <br />Promotes property tax equity by permitting taxing <br />authorities to assess new construction on a partial- <br />year basis, subject to appropriate exemptions. <br /> <br />~q2. I 0 Provides state f~nding for a Small Local Government <br /> Financial Technical Assistance Program that woutd <br /> provide training and technical assistance to small <br /> municipalities, including but not limited to financial <br /> emergencies, contemporary fiscal practices and <br /> evaluation of the costs and benefits associated with <br /> land-use decisions. <br /> <br />202.11 <br /> <br />Amends Chapter 75, Florida Statutes, to restrict <br />the ability to intervene in bond validation hearings <br />for special assessments to fee holders of property <br />within the impacted district. <br /> <br />202.12 Permits municipalities to share in the communication <br /> systems surcharges levied by counties for <br /> in.tergovernmenta[ radio communication systems. <br /> <br />202.13 Expands the authorized uses of the 9i I fee and <br /> other related telephone revenues. <br /> <br />202.14 Provides periodic legislative review and removal <br /> of restrictions on the implementation and the <br /> utilization of local revenue sources, and on the <br /> expenditure of municipal revenues. <br /> <br />202. 15 Grants fiscal Home Rule authority to municipalities. <br /> <br />202.16 Creates an ad valorem tax exemption for <br /> commercial tangible personal property accounts <br /> of $5,000 or less. <br /> <br />202.17Provides appropriate fiscal autonomy to <br /> municipalities to address local infrastructure needs <br /> and state growth management requirements. <br /> <br />202.18 Requires that state service fees on municipal trust <br /> funds not exceed the actual cost of collection. <br /> <br />202.19 Allows municipalities to seek monetary judgments <br /> for outstanding liens on homestead properties and <br /> to pursue collection through the attachment of <br /> personal property. <br /> <br />202.20 Requires the indexing of all state and local option <br /> gas taxes to the Construction Cost Index. <br /> <br />202.21 Provides municipal immunity from the sales and <br /> use tax. <br /> <br />202.22 <br /> <br />Provides municipalities with an equitable <br />distribution of revenue derived from the collection <br />of fines, fonCeitures and assessable court costs. <br /> <br />202.23 <br /> <br />Allows municipalities and special districts to <br />combine insurance premium tax revenues to <br />joindy provide equitable public safety pension <br />benefits, <br /> <br />202.24 <br /> <br />Provides municipalities with the authority to levy <br />a motor fuel tax to meet municipal transportation <br />needs. <br /> <br />202.25 <br /> <br />Requires the state to distribute to local boards on <br />an equitable basis, any transportation fees received <br />from the federal government that previously may <br />have been directly transmitted to local governments <br />or public agencies. <br /> <br />202.26 <br /> <br />202.27 <br /> <br />202.28 <br /> <br />Requires that property owners adjacent to <br />roadway improvements be assessed in an amount <br />equal to the lesser of the right-of-way acquisition <br />cost or the increase in property valuation arising <br />from such roadway improvements. <br /> <br />Provides additional funding mechanisms for <br />regional public transportation projects. <br /> <br />Requires municipal consent for the creation, by a <br />county, of a municipal service tax or benefit district <br />within a municipality's boundary. <br /> <br />6 <br /> <br /> <br />