Overview
- Attorney General James Uthmeier filed the new title and ballot summary on Thursday, Aug. 14, after Leon County Judge David Frank ruled the original language misleading.
- The revised summary specifies the homestead exemption would rise to $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028 and that the cap on non-homestead assessment increases would drop to 5 percent.
- The plaintiffs who forced the rewrite have up to 10 days to object to the new wording and the tight calendar for primary ballots and mail-ballot printing creates a compressed, legally volatile timeline.
- State fiscal estimates show nearly $5 billion in local revenue losses in the first fiscal year and about $11.86 billion annually once fully phased in, prompting law-enforcement groups, unions and local officials to warn of service cuts or tax shifts.
- If voters approve the measure by the 60 percent threshold it would take effect Jan. 1, 2027; the attorney general could only change the title and summary not the amendment text and counties that rely heavily on homestead taxes would likely feel the largest impacts to policing, fire, infrastructure and other services.