Bill > H0731

This bill imposes several new requirements and restrictions on local government referenda in Florida: - It requires referenda to reenact expiring tourist development taxes, tourist impact taxes, and county/municipal ad valorem tax increases to be held only at general elections, and limits such referenda to once every 48 months. - It requires referenda to approve increases in the millage rate for children's services special districts to be held only at general elections, and limits such referenda to once every 48 months. - It requires referenda to adopt, amend, or reenact local government discretionary sales surtaxes, the ninth-cent fuel tax, and local option fuel taxes to be held only at general elections, and limits such referenda to once every 48 months. - It removes provisions that previously allowed school district millage elections to be held at any time, and instead requires them to be held only at general elections, with a limit of once every 48 months. The overall effect of this bill is to restrict the timing and frequency of local government referenda on various tax and revenue measures in Florida.