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Introduced Session

An act relating to local government finances; providing a short title; amending s. 129.03, F.S.; revising the timeframe during which tentative budgets, and the length of time for which final budgets, must be posted on county websites; requiring the county to hold a budget workshop for a specified purpose by a certain date; requiring the county to post a certain budget reduction exercise or link on its website; requiring that tentative, adopted tentative, and final budgets be posted on a county’s website; specifying requirements for such posted budgets; deleting obsolete language; requiring counties to prepare certain quarterly compensation summaries; requiring that such summaries be posted on a county website in a certain format; requiring counties to publish budget development calendars; specifying requirements for such calendars; providing that such publication may not serve as a basis for certain actions; amending s. 129.06, F.S.; revising the length of time for which a public hearing for an amendment to a county budget must be advertised; requiring that proposed amendments be posted on the county’s website on a certain date; revising the length of time for which adopted amendments must remain on such website; amending s. 163.3164, F.S.; defining the terms “impact fee” and “plan-based methodology”; amending s. 163.3180, F.S.; authorizing a local government to adopt an alternative transportation system that is mobility-plan and fee based or that is not mobility-plan and fee-based, including impact fees, under certain circumstances; providing construction; prohibiting certain interlocal agreements from extending beyond a specified date; deleting an exception to an applicability provision relating to concurrency; amending s. 163.31801, F.S.; defining the term “extraordinary circumstances”; specifying requirements applicable to local governments and special districts for impact fees adopted or increased after a specified date; requiring that a demonstrated-need study use a plan-based methodology for a certain purpose; requiring that certain capacity standards be specified in a certain impact fee study; requiring that a demonstrated-need study be accompanied by a certain declaration; requiring local governments, school districts, and special districts to use localized data for a certain purpose; prohibiting local governments, school districts, and special districts from using certain data for a specified purpose; prohibiting local governments, school districts, and special districts from including certain deductions in certain impact fee increases and from increasing impact fee rates beyond certain phase-in limitations by more than a specified percentage within a certain timeframe; providing procedures relating to impact fee payor refunds and credits of impact fee overpayments; providing legislative intent; prohibiting the use of certain provisions as an admission against interest; amending s. 166.241, F.S.; revising the timeframe during which tentative budgets, and the length of time for which final budgets, must be posted on municipal or county websites, as applicable; requiring the municipality to hold a budget workshop for a specified purpose by a certain date; requiring the municipality to post a certain budget reduction exercise or link on its website or the county’s website, as applicable; requiring that tentative, adopted tentative, and final budgets be posted on a municipality’s website or the county’s website, as applicable; specifying requirements for such posted budgets; deleting obsolete language; requiring that proposed amendments be posted on a certain website on a certain date; revising the length of time for which adopted amendments must remain on such website; requiring municipalities to prepare certain quarterly compensation summaries; requiring that such summaries be posted in a specified manner; requiring municipalities to publish budget development calendars in a specified manner; specifying requirements for such calendars; providing that such publication may not serve as a basis for certain actions; amending s. 212.055, F.S.; conforming a cross-reference; declaring that the act fulfills an important state interest; providing an effective date.

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Nick DiCeglie (R)*, 

Other Sponsors (3)

Laid on Table, refer to CS/CS/HB 1329 (on 03/06/2026)

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