Florida House Bill 1181 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Failed on March 9 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-09 - Died in Finance and Tax Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Provides for revenue-neutral tax reform by replacing revenue from required local effort school property tax & nonvoted discretionary property taxes with revenue from state sales tax surtax; revises provisions for purposes relating to Streamlined Sales & Use Tax Agreement; deletes application of brackets for calculation of sales & use taxes; creates education surtax on sales & use tax base; provides for method of determining such surtax; revises exemptions from sales & use tax for food & medical products; revises exemption from sales & use tax for drinking water sold in certain containers to limit exemption to water sold in containers of specified size or larger; subjects drinking water sold in containers of specified size or smaller to sales & use tax; provides for entry into agreements with other states to simplify & facilitate compliance with sales tax laws; deletes requirement that district school board levy minimum millage rate necessary to provide district's required local effort; specifies that proceeds from education surtax shall be allocated from State School Trust Fund annually in General Appropriations Act in lieu of revenue that would have been raised from levy of nonvoted operating discretionary millage & certain other millages.

Revenue-Neutral Tax Reform

Rep. Richard Corcoran [R]

Rep. Fredrick Costello [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-09		Died in Finance and Tax Committee
2012-01-10		Introduced -HJ 115
2012-01-09		Referred to Finance and Tax Committee; PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee; Appropriations Committee -HJ 116
2012-01-03		Filed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
1002	32		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1011	02		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1011	62		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1011	69		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1011	71		Amended Code	See Bill Text
11	45		Amended Code	See Bill Text
196	012		Amended Code	See Bill Text
202	18		Amended Code	See Bill Text
203	01		Amended Code	See Bill Text
212	02		Amended Code	See Bill Text
212	03		Amended Code	See Bill Text
212	0306		Amended Code	See Bill Text
212	031		Amended Code	See Bill Text
212	04		Amended Code	See Bill Text
212	05		Amended Code	See Bill Text
212	0506		Amended Code	See Bill Text
212	052		Amended Code	See Bill Text
212	054		Amended Code	See Bill Text
212	055		Amended Code	See Bill Text
212	0596		Amended Code	See Bill Text
212	06		Amended Code	See Bill Text
212	07		Amended Code	See Bill Text
212	08		Amended Code	See Bill Text
212	12		Amended Code	See Bill Text
212	13		Amended Code	See Bill Text
212	15		Amended Code	See Bill Text
212	17		Amended Code	See Bill Text
212	18		Amended Code	See Bill Text
212	20		Amended Code	See Bill Text
213	015		Amended Code	See Bill Text
213	256		Amended Code	See Bill Text
218	245		Amended Code	See Bill Text
218	65		Amended Code	See Bill Text
288	1045		Amended Code	See Bill Text
288	11621		Amended Code	See Bill Text
288	1169		Amended Code	See Bill Text
551	102		Amended Code	See Bill Text
790	0655		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/1181
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/1181/BillText/Filed/PDF