Florida lets a Save Our Homes amendment expire when grandma dies. The State Senate can fix that.
New Port Richey is where Florida's property-tax math hits seniors the hardest. The Save Our Homes amendment caps annual assessment growth at 3% for current homeowners but resets to full market value the moment the homestead transfers. Working children inheriting a parent's modest waterfront cottage are facing tax bills that triple overnight. The State Senate can protect generational coastal homeownership without giving away a windfall to speculators.
Extend Save Our Homes assessment protection to a homestead inherited by a direct working-adult child who occupies the property as their primary residence. Keep the cap. Protects the coastal cottages families spent generations paying off. Excludes investors and second-home owners by design.
Bayonet Point and Trinity hospitals cover 380,000 residents. The 2024 Medicaid managed-care contract changes risk OB, behavioral health, and stroke service-line closure at one or both. State-level rural / coastal hospital adjustment factor, in the next legislative session.
Pasco coastal resilience funding from the state should be allocated based on threatened housing units, not assessed property value. New Port Richey loses more homes per dollar appropriated than any community in Pasco; the formula does not currently reflect that.
“My mother bought the house on Massachusetts Avenue in 1972. I have lived here my entire life. When she passed last year my tax bill went from $1,800 to $6,400. I am 58 years old and I drive a school bus.
“Bayonet Point delivered every grandchild in my family. If they close the OB line, the next nearest delivery is 28 miles. That math is not survivable.
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