Florida House Bill 789 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Failed on March 11 2016 - 100% progression
Action: 2016-03-11 - Died in State Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [PDF]

Authorizes municipality to levy special assessment to fund law enforcement services under certain circumstances; provides methodology to apportion special assessment & reduce ad valorem millage; requires property appraiser to list special assessment on TRIM notices; provides for termination of municipality's special assessment; requires certain municipalities to issue procurement requests for delinquent revenues; provides that municipalities issuing procurement requests are not required to enter into contract; excludes certain delinquent revenues from threshold calculations; requires bid copies to be filed with DFS; requires that discussion of capital recovery efforts be included in management letter accompanying municipality's annual financial audit report.

Local Government Finance

House Finance and Tax Committee

Rep. Raymond Pilon [R]

Rep. Hazelle Rogers [D]

Rep. Robert Cortes [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-11	House	Died in State Affairs Committee
2016-02-23	House	On Committee agenda-- State Affairs Committee, 02/25/16, 1:00 pm, Morris Hall --Temporarily postponed
2016-02-15	House	Now in State Affairs Committee
2016-02-15	House	CS referred to State Affairs Committee
2016-02-15	House	Original reference(s) removed: Local and Federal Affairs Committee
2016-02-12	House	CS by Finance and Tax Committee read 1st time
2016-02-12	House	Pending review of CS under Rule 7.19(c)
2016-02-09	House	CS by Finance and Tax Committee; YEAS 14 NAYS 0
2016-02-05	House	PCS on Committee agenda-- Finance and Tax Committee, 02/09/16, 3:00 pm, Morris Hall
2016-01-12	House	Introduced
2015-12-10	House	Referred to Finance and Tax Committee; Local and Federal Affairs Committee
2015-11-24	House	Filed

S0264 (Similar To) 2016-03-11 - Died in Finance and Tax
H7009 (Similar To) 2016-01-13 - Unfavorable by State Affairs Committee, laid on Table; YEAS 9 NAYS 9

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
166	225		Amended Code	See Bill Text
166	30		Amended Code	See Bill Text
218	39		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2016/789
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2016/0789/BillText/Filed/PDF
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2016/0789/BillText/c1/PDF
Amendment	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2016/0789/Amendment/325781/PDF