No. CS/CS/HB 1169

Local governments can no longer spend the excess building-permit fee revenue they are barred from carrying forward on constructing a building to house their code enforcement agency, closing off one of four previously approved uses for those funds.

The related rule tying such construction spending to a 4-year carry-forward limit is deleted too, since the spending option it applied to no longer exists; the excess funds must now go only to fee rebates, technology upgrades, or training.

Owners or builders with a valid permit, or associations representing them, may still sue a local government that misspends these excess funds, an enforcement right the statute already provided and this bill leaves untouched.