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HB1329

Local Government Financial Transparency and Accountability Act

Last scannedAug 24, 2026, 10:35 AM

In one sentence

This law requires Florida counties and cities to post budget details online for longer periods, hold workshops on cutting budgets by 10 percent without losing essential services, publish budget calendars, and follow new rules when charging impact fees.

Requires counties and municipalities to hold a workshop identifying strategies to potentially reduce the next year's budget by 10 percent compared to the current year without compromising essential public services like law enforcement or fire protection.
Mandates that tentative, adopted tentative, and final budgets be posted on official websites in downloadable formats; tentative budgets must stay online for at least 45 days, while final budgets must remain for at least two years.
Requires local governments to publish a calendar showing when they will develop their annual budget.
Sets new rules for impact fees charged by counties, school districts, and special districts, including requirements to use specific data methods (plan-based methodology) and limit how fast fee rates can rise within certain timeframes.
Updates the advertising timeframe required before holding public hearings about changes to county budgets.

The text states that publishing a budget calendar cannot serve as the basis for certain actions but does not specify exactly what those actions are.
While the law requires using localized data and plan-based methodologies, it refers to specific dates and percentages in statutes (e.g., s. 163.3180) without listing every numerical limit in this summary.

Plain language

Impact fee: A charge collected from developers or property owners to help pay for new public facilities needed because of growth.
Tentative budget: The first draft of a government's spending plan that is shared with the public before it becomes final law.
Budget reduction exercise: A required meeting where officials identify ways to potentially cut 10 percent from their proposed budget while keeping essential services running.

Official record

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Local Government Finances

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