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202.3 202.4 202.5 202.6 202.7 202.8 Changes the Public Service Tax to a sales and use- : 202.16 Creates an ad valorem tax exemption for based tax. commercial tangible personal property accounts of $5,000 or less. Provides a tax structure that is equitable and fair for : consumersandiscompetitivelyneutralforbusinesses. : 202.17 Provides appropriate fiscal autonomy to municipalities to address local infrastructure needs Provides uniform definitions of taxable goods and : and state growth management requirements. services. . : 202.18 Requires that state service fees on municipal trust Maintains the Home Rule powers of municipalities . funds not exceed the actual cost of collection. to enforce negotiated rights set forth in existing: franchise agreements to purchase and operate : 202.19 Allows municipalities to seek monetary judgments electric utility distribution systems. for outstanding liens on homestead properties and to pursue collection through the attachment of personal property. Requires all tax exemptions to be tied to measurable : benefits and subject to periodic sunset review. : 202.20 Requires the indexing of all state and local option Corrects the inequalities caused by the double : gas taxes to the Construction Cost Index. taxation of municipal citizens, as originally intended by the framers of the Florida Constitution. · 202.21 Provides municipal immunity from the sales and use tax. Promotes property tax equity by permitting taxing: authorities to assess new construction on a partial- : 202.22 Provides municipalities with an equitable year basis, subject to appropriate exemptions. distribution of revenue derived from the collection of fines, forfeitures and assessable court costs. 202.10 Provides state funding for a Small Local Government : Financial Technical Assistance Program that would' 202.23 Allows municipalities and special districts to provide training and technical assistance to small: combine insurance premium tax revenues to municipalities. including but not limited to financial: jointly provide equitable public safety pension emergencies, contemporary fiscal practices and : benefits. evaluation of the costs and benefits associated with . land-use decisions. : 202.24 Provides municipalities with the authority to levy a motor fuel tax to meet municipal transportation 202.11 Amends Chapter 75, Florida Statutes, to restrict: needs. the ability to intervene in bond validation hearings . for special assessments to fee holders of property: 202.25 Requires the state to distribute to local boards on within the impacted district. . an equitable basis, any transportation fees received from the federal government that previously may have been directly transmitted to local governments or public agencies. 202.9 202.12 Permits municipalities to share in the communication systems surcharges levied by counties for: in~ergovernmental radio communication systems. : 202.26 Requires that property owners adjacent to fee and : roadway improvements be assessed in an amount equal to the lesser of the right-of-way acquisition · cost or the increase in property valuation arising 202.14 Provides periodic legislative review and removal . from such roadway improvements. of restrictions on the implementation and the: utilization of local revenue sources, and on the: 202.27 Provides additional funding mechanisms for expenditure of municipal revenues. regional public transportation projects. 202. I 3 Expands the authorized uses of the 91 I other related telephone revenues. 202.15 Grants fiscal Home Rule authority to municipalities. : 202.28 Requires municipal consent for the creation, b~ a · county, of a municipal service tax or benefit district · within a municipality's boundary. 6 ~