Florida SB 1566: Enforcement of Federal Laws

Bill Text

1566 
Local Government Finances 
2026-03-04T13:45:28Z 
Citing this act as the “Local Government Financial Transparency and Accountability Act”; revising the timeframe during which tentative budgets, and the length of time for which final budgets, must be posted on county websites; requiring counties to prepare certain quarterly compensation summaries; revising the length of time for which a public hearing for an amendment to a county budget must be advertised; specifying requirements applicable to local governments and special districts for impact fees adopted or increased after a specified date, etc. 
Committee Substitute 3 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 CS for CS for CS for SB 1566 

 By the Committee on Rules; the Appropriations Committee on 
 Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; the Committee 
 on Community Affairs; and Senator DiCeglie 

 595-03389A-26 20261566c3 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to local government finances; 
 3 providing a short title; amending s. 129.03, F.S.; 
 4 revising the timeframe during which tentative budgets, 
 5 and the length of time for which final budgets, must 
 6 be posted on county websites; requiring the county to 
 7 hold a budget workshop for a specified purpose by a 
 8 certain date; requiring the county to post a certain 
 9 budget reduction exercise or link on its website; 
 10 requiring that tentative, adopted tentative, and final 
 11 budgets be posted on a county’s website; specifying 
 12 requirements for such posted budgets; deleting 
 13 obsolete language; requiring counties to prepare 
 14 certain quarterly compensation summaries; requiring 
 15 that such summaries be posted on a county website in a 
 16 certain format; requiring counties to publish budget 
 17 development calendars; specifying requirements for 
 18 such calendars; providing that such publication may 
 19 not serve as a basis for certain actions; amending s. 
 20 129.06, F.S.; revising the length of time for which a 
 21 public hearing for an amendment to a county budget 
 22 must be advertised; requiring that proposed amendments 
 23 be posted on the county’s website on a certain date; 
 24 revising the length of time for which adopted 
 25 amendments must remain on such website; amending s. 
 26 163.3164, F.S.; defining the terms “impact fee” and 
 27 “plan-based methodology”; amending s. 163.3180, F.S.; 
 28 authorizing a local government to adopt an alternative 
 29 transportation system that is mobility-plan and fee 
 30 based or that is not mobility-plan and fee-based, 
 31 including impact fees, under certain circumstances; 
 32 providing construction; prohibiting certain interlocal 
 33 agreements from extending beyond a specified date; 
 34 deleting an exception to an applicability provision 
 35 relating to concurrency; amending s. 163.31801, F.S.; 
 36 defining the term “extraordinary circumstances”; 
 37 specifying requirements applicable to local 
 38 governments and special districts for impact fees 
 39 adopted or increased after a specified date; requiring 
 40 that a demonstrated-need study use a plan-based 
 41 methodology for a certain purpose; requiring that 
 42 certain capacity standards be specified in a certain 
 43 impact fee study; requiring that a demonstrated-need 
 44 study be accompanied by a certain declaration; 
 45 requiring local governments, school districts, and 
 46 special districts to use localized data for a certain 
 47 purpose; prohibiting local governments, school 
 48 districts, and special districts from using certain 
 49 data for a specified purpose; prohibiting local 
 50 governments, school districts, and special districts 
 51 from including certain deductions in certain impact 
 52 fee increases and from increasing impact fee rates 
 53 beyond certain phase-in limitations by more than a 
 54 specified percentage within a certain timeframe; 
 55 providing procedures relating to impact fee payor 
 56 refunds and credits of impact fee overpayments; 
 57 providing legislative intent; prohibiting the use of 
 58 certain provisions as an admission against interest; 
 59 amending s. 166.241, F.S.; revising the timeframe 
 60 during which tentative budgets, and the length of time 
 61 for which final budgets, must be posted on municipal 
 62 or county websites, as applicable; requiring the 
 63 municipality to hold a budget workshop for a specified 
 64 purpose by a certain date; requiring the municipality 
 65 to post a certain budget reduction exercise or link on 
 66 its website or the county’s website, as applicable; 
 67 requiring that tentative, adopted tentative, and final 
 68 budgets be posted on a municipality’s website or the 
 69 county’s website, as applicable; specifying 
 70 requirements for such posted budgets; deleting 
 71 obsolete language; requiring that proposed amendments 
 72 be posted on a certain website on a certain date; 
 73 revising the length of