Bill > H7001

This bill requires the Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) to maintain an official list of special districts, which are local government entities created for a specific purpose, like providing water or managing a community. The bill mandates that the DEO must exclude and then remove any special districts that have been declared "inactive" from this official list. An inactive district is one that no longer actively functions or meets certain criteria for inactivity as defined in the law. The DEO will also create a separate list for these inactive districts and will only remove them from that inactive list if they become active again, are merged with another entity, or are dissolved. Additionally, the bill clarifies that the merger or dissolution of an *active* dependent special district requires legislative action, while inactive districts, whether dependent or independent, can be dissolved or merged more easily, sometimes without a public vote, under specific circumstances.