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Florida Living Quarters for Elderly, Amendment 7 (2002)
From Ballotpedia
Florida Living Quarters for Elderly, Amendment 7 was on the November 5, 2002 election ballot in Florida as a legislatively-referred constitutional amendment, where it was approved.
Election results
| Amendment 7 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 a Yes | 3,206,142 | 67.3% | ||
| No | 1,557,694 | 32.7% | ||
Text of measure
The language that appeared on the ballot:
Proposes an amendment to the State Constitution to allow counties to exempt from taxation an increase in the assessed value of homestead property resulting from constructing living quarters for a parent or grandparent of the property owner or the property owner's spouse who is 62 years old or older. Limits the amount of such exemption to the increase in assessed value resulting from such construction or 20 percent of the total assessed value of the property as improved, whichever is less.
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