Each legislative session, bills are passed that will affect Florida’s municipalities and elected officials. The League has collected a variety of resources to assist local officials and provide guidance on new rules and regulations. We will continue adding new resources as they become available.
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Click here to view the Summary of Key Findings and full Property Tax Study.
To help you communicate clearly with your community, the Florida League of Cities has developed a Property Tax Toolkit with resources designed for local outreach. The toolkit includes ready-to-use messaging materials to help you explain how property taxes work and why they matter. View Toolkit
To help you better understand your city’s reliance on property taxes and the potential impacts of property tax reform, we have compiled municipal-level parcel data from the Department of Revenue’s 2024 tax rolls to provide a city-specific overview.
This handout highlights how property taxes fund core local services and support local decision-making and accountability. The resource is designed to help cities educate residents and reinforce key messaging around affordability, services, and local control.
This flyer shows newspaper coverage highlighting how property taxes fund the services residents rely on.
CS/CS/CS/SB 784 (Ch. 2025-164, L.O.F.) requires plats and replat submittals to be approved administratively. This ordinance is an example of an administrative approval process for plats. It is not a model ordinance. Municipal attorneys are advised to review Ch. 2025-164 before proceeding with ordinance development.
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Municipalities seeking information about financing and income qualification requirements for affordable housing should visit the Florida Housing Coalition’s webpage at flhousing.org. You will find a host of resources and training, including the following:
The Live Local Act, SB 102, was signed by the Governor and became law effective July 1, 2023 (Ch. 2023-17, Laws of Florida). Section 5 of SB 102 imposes both incentives and mandates relating to local government regulation of the use, height, and density of qualifying affordable housing projects. Many municipal attorneys, planners, and elected officials have a variety of questions about the implementation of the provisions of Section 5 of SB 102. This is a link to a Memorandum of Law and FAQ document that may assist you with some of the most common questions pertaining to Section 5 of SB 102.
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