{"id":371371,"date":"2026-08-14T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371371\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:00:11","slug":"florida-rewrites-amendment-3-property-tax-ballot-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371371\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida rewrites Amendment 3 property tax ballot language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida rewrites Amendment 3 property tax ballot language after court ruling<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0ef9e7e2-0673-4d77-92c5-22a1e3663de5_1697751930.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Allison Petro\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Florida \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A proposed amendment that could cut property taxes will now have new language on the ballot in November.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">This all comes after a Florida judge ruled that the original language of Amendment 3 was misleading. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The amendment, previously titled &#8220;Save our homes from excessive property taxes,&#8221; was criticized by the judge as a political slogan that is neither fair nor neutral. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The ruling blocked Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd from placing the current version of the amendment on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">The amendment is now titled: &#8220;Increased homestead exemption; lower cap on increases in non-homestead property assessments.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">Amendment 3 proposes to increase the homestead exemption for non-school property taxes to $250,000 over two years. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">However, opponents argue that cities and counties would be forced to raise other taxes or cut funding for local services.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">The Florida Sheriffs Association expressed concerns, warning that the amendment could potentially create longer law enforcement response times if passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida rewrites Amendment 3 property tax ballot language after court ruling Florida \u2014 A proposed amendment that could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17907,187,20066,28,30,29,112120,14851,14559,16288,150134,150132,150133,150135,150131,26109,98350],"class_list":["post-371371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-amendment","tag-city","tag-court-ruling","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-secretary","tag-funding","tag-homestead-exemption","tag-increase","tag-local-service","tag-low-cap","tag-non-homestead-property-assessment","tag-other-taxis","tag-property-tax-ballot-language","tag-property-taxis","tag-state-cord-byrd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}