Updates from the Capitol

Source: Scott Dudley
March 17, 2011
 
Growth Management Reform proposed committee bill passed Community and Military Affairs Subcommittee. It contains the FLC's legislative priorities on growth management.
 
SB 1128 (Ring) dealing with public retirement plans, passed the Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability Committee. Next stop is the Senate Budget Committee.

SB 606 (Evers), dealing with fertilizer preemption, passed unanimously out of the Senate Agriculture Committee.

SJR 658 (Fasano) passed out of the Senate Community Affairs Committee. The bill changes the non-homestead assessment cap from ten to three percent. SB 582 (Detert) also passed out of the committee. SB 582 exempts employees from the local business tax.
 
SB 912 (Bennett) deals with legislation that would remove the legislative cap on the state housing trust fund. The bill passed the Senate Children, Families and Elder Affairs Committee.
The bill now progresses to the next committee stop, the Senate Budget Committee.
 
The Senate's version of the proposed constitutional amendment to change the state's revenue cap, CS/SJR 958 (Senate Budget Subcommittee on Finance and Tax) passed the Florida Senate with the required three-fifths vote. The bill passed 27 to 13. CS/SJR 968 does not include local governments. The House has not yet released its version of the revenue cap.
 
SB 174 (Bennett) passed its final committee assignment in budget. It will now move to the Senate floor. It is the reenactment of SB 360.
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