Overview
- A Leon County judge heard two hours of arguments on July 29 over three combined lawsuits saying the amendment's title and summary are biased and misleading to voters.
- Plaintiffs, including former local officials and ex‑Sen. Jeff Brandes, say the title phrase “Save Our Homes from Excessive Property Taxes” uses emotional language and that the summary omits key details about who benefits and what is limited.
- State lawyers argued the ballot text is meant to be a high‑level summary that need not include technical legal detail and that plaintiffs must prove the wording is clearly defective.
- If Judge David Frank finds the language defective, state law gives Attorney General James Uthmeier 10 days to fix it, a deadline that could compress or change what appears on ballots because mail ballots begin printing at the end of August.
- The substance of HJR 1F would raise homestead exemptions to $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028, cut non‑homestead assessment growth caps, and the Florida Revenue Estimating Conference projects roughly $12 billion in recurring local revenue loss, a fact that shapes both legal and political debate.