More Bold FL GOP Climate Action! Elevate Your Home & Those Improvements Won't Boost Assessments!

[hatrack]

While the funding source for the House plan still needs to be worked out as lawmakers put together the 2021-2022 budget, the House doesn’t call for bonding the money. House leaders have been averse to incurring long-term debt through issuing bonds.

The House proposal, which Sprowls called a “suite of bills,” also would set up a three-year Statewide Flooding and Sea Level Rise Resilience Plan that the Department of Environmental Protection would update annually.

Also, the proposal would ask voters in 2022 to approve a constitutional amendment that would provide a property-tax break when residents elevate homes to avoid the impacts of flooding and rising seas. Under the proposal, such improvements would not be considered in determining assessed values of homes for tax purposes.

“Homeowners who are taking proactive measures to protect their property from flooding should not only be rewarded, but they should be incentivized,” said Rep. Linda Chaney, a St. Pete Beach Republican, sponsoring the proposed constitutional amendment and an accompanying bill (HJR 1377 and HB 1379).

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https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2021/02/27/floridians-could-get-tax-break-elevate-homes-under-new-proposals/6841083002/

[Thekaspervote]

1. Fine elevate your home!! While you're at it, elevate the road to your home..or I guess get a boat!

NUTS!!

[hatrack]

2. This barely scrapes past "purely symbolic" . . .

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[Thekaspervote]

3. ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️

[bronxiteforever]

4. The GOP said the magic word! "incentivized"

That is a powerful magic cure for climate change!

[Mickju]

5. This is idiotic.