High School Equivalency Diplomas; Prohibiting a district school board from requiring certain students to take a course before taking the high school equivalency examination unless the student failed to earn a passing score on a specified practice test, etc.
Housing; Citing this act as the "Live Local Act"; deleting the authority of local governments to adopt or maintain laws, ordinances, rules, or other measures that would have the effect of imposing controls on rents; providing an exemption from ad valorem taxation for land that meets certain criteria; authorizing local governments to adopt ordinances to provide an ad valorem tax exemption for portions of property used to provide affordable housing meeting certain requirements; suspending, for a specified period, the General Revenue Fund service charge on documentary stamp tax collections; authorizing the Governor, under the Florida Job Growth Grant Fund, to approve state or local public infrastructure projects to facilitate the development or construction of affordable housing, etc. APPROPRIATION: $711,000,000
Taiwan Relations; Expressing appreciation for the sister state relationship and bilateral economic and cultural ties between the State of Florida and Taiwan, etc.
Taxation of Affordable Housing; Authorizing counties and municipalities to adopt ordinances to grant ad valorem tax exemptions to property owners whose properties are used to provide affordable housing; specifying limits on the amount of such exemptions; specifying requirements for ordinances granting such exemptions; specifying duties of boards of county commissioners and municipal governing bodies adopting ordinances granting such exemptions or repealing such ordinances, etc.
