SB 710 — Administrative Review of Property Taxes

Florida Senate - 2019 CS for SB 710 By Senator Baxley 12-01228-19 2019710__ A bill to be entitled An act relating to the administrativeCommittee reviewon ofCommunity propertyAffairs; taxes;

and Senator Baxley 578-03294-19 2019710c1 A bill to be entitled An act relating to the administrative review of property taxes;

revising the definition of the term “good cause” to exclude certain circumstances;circumstances in certain counties;

authorizing clerks of county governing bodies of such counties, within a certain timeframe, to request property appraisers and petitioners to identify certain dates of unavailability for hearing;

1217 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

1419 Section 1. Present paragraph (h) of subsection (3) of section 194.011, Florida Statutes, is redesignated as paragraph (i), and a new paragraph (h) is added to that subsection, to read:

Late-filedA petitionslate-filed petition must be filed within 3055 days after the 25th day following the mailing of the notice by the property appraiser.

TheHowever, for a county in which the number of petitions filed exceeds 5,000 in any year, the term does not include being scheduled for two separate hearings in different jurisdictions at the same time or on the same date.date, unless the hearings involve the same petitioner or property appraiser and the petitioner agrees to reschedule the hearing.

For counties in which the number of petitions filed exceeds 5,000 in any year, before the value adjustment board begins its hearings for the year, the clerk may request that the property appraiser and the petitioner identify up to 10 business days each on which he or she is unavailable for hearing.