Bill Text: FL H1091 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Assessments to Fund Law Enforcement Services

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Military & Local Affairs Policy (EDCA) [H1091 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-H1091-Introduced.html

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HB 1091

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to assessments to fund law enforcement
3	services; creating s. 166.212, F.S.; authorizing municipal
4	governments to levy an assessment to fund law enforcement
5	services; providing for a methodology to charge a parcel
6	in reasonable proportion to the benefits it receives;
7	requiring that ad valorem taxes be reduced; providing
8	limits on the amount of the reduction in certain
9	circumstances; providing for increases in assessments in
10	future years; providing that such assessment shall be
11	construed to be general law authorization pursuant to ss.
12	1 and 9, Art. VII of the State Constitution; providing an
13	effective date.
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15	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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17	Section 1. Section 166.212, Florida Statutes, is created
18	to read:
19	166.212 Assessments for law enforcement services.-
20	(1) A municipality may fund some or all of the costs of
21	law enforcement services through the levy of a law enforcement
22	services assessment if the governing body of the municipality:
23	(a) Adopts a law enforcement services assessment ordinance
24	that apportions the cost among the property in the municipality
25	based on a methodology that charges a parcel in reasonable
26	proportion to the benefits it receives. Such methodology may, in
27	addition to any other relevant factors, take into consideration
28	the following:
29	1. Square footage.
30	2. Location.
31	3. Use.
32	4. Amount of law enforcement time spent protecting
33	property by neighborhood, zone, or category of use, including
34	number of calls, time spent on regular patrol, and time spent
35	ensuring the safety of and regulating the traffic on the streets
36	that give access to the property.
37	5. Value of the property protected, including contents;
38	however, in no instance may value of property be the sole or
39	major factor in setting the assessment.
40	(b) In the initial year of implementation, reduces its
41	total ad valorem tax revenue, as projected for the upcoming
42	fiscal year and calculated as if there were no law enforcement
43	services assessment, by an amount equal to the amount of the law
44	enforcement services assessment; however, no municipality shall
45	be required to reduce its millage rate, exclusive of voted
46	millages and contract obligated millages, by more than 75
47	percent. After the initial year of implementation, the
48	assessment shall be increased only in the same manner as ad
49	valorem revenue is permitted to be increased pursuant to s.
50	200.065. The initial reduction in ad valorem tax revenue,
51	exclusive of voted millages and contract millages, shall be
52	limited to no more than 50 percent if the implementing
53	resolution is adopted by an extraordinary majority vote of the
54	governing body.
55	(2) The authorization provided in this section shall be
56	construed to be general law authorization pursuant to ss. 1 and
57	9, Art. VII of the State Constitution.
58	Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.

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