THE BILL ITSELF

HB 149

Maximum Millage Rates for the 2027-2028 Fiscal Year

underlined language is being added; struck language is being deleted. Line numbers are the Legislature's own — the same ones amendments cite.

1 A bill to be entitled

2 An act relating to maximum millage rates for the 2027-

3 2028 fiscal year; providing a short title; creating s.

4 200.1851, F.S.; providing a method for determining the

5 maximum county millage rate and school millage rate

6 for the 2027-2028 fiscal year; providing for future

7 repeal; providing an effective date.

9 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

11 Section 1. This act may be cited the "Freedom 1: Property

12 Tax Relief Rollback for All Floridians Act."

13 Section 2. Section 200.1851, Florida Statutes, is created

14 to read:

15 200.1851 Maximum millage rates for the 2027-2028 fiscal

16 year.—

17 (1) Notwithstanding any other law, the maximum county

18 millage rate that may be levied for the 2027-2028 fiscal year is

19 the rate which will provide the same ad valorem tax revenue for

20 the taxing authority as was levied during the 2022-2023 fiscal

21 year.

22 (2) Notwithstanding any other law, the maximum school

23 millage rate that may be levied for the 2027-2028 fiscal year is

24 the rate which will provide the same ad valorem tax revenue for

25 the taxing authority as was levied during the 2022-2023 fiscal

26 year.

27 (3) This section is repealed January 1, 2029.

28 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.