Realty Blog

After being taken off the FL State Ballot because it was misleading infomation or lack of, regarding Tax Reform, Gov. Charlie Crist asked Republican leaders in the House and Senate to call another special session on property taxes before an Oct. 28th deadline to place a proposed constitutional ammendment affecting taxes on the Jan. 29th, 2008 ballot.

Senate President Pruitt and House Speaker Marco Rubio were divided on whether to revisit their proposed constitutional ammendment that gradually would replace Save Our Homes protections with a new, larger homestead exemption. A circuit court judge struck that question from the Jan 29 ballot, say it was misleading. The state has appealed that ruling.

Both the House speaker and the Senate president must agree to place this issue to the agenda, but the govener can call a special session unilaterally.