Budget & Taxes (Fees & Licensing)

Corporations; Recommends that Supreme Court create statewide business court; reducing filing fee for certain documents; requires refund of certain paid taxes in specified tax year.

Fees for Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Services; Providing that an expedited service fee, less a specified charge, is retained by the tax collector under certain circumstances; providing that a specified percentage of certain fees imposed on motor vehicle registration transactions are retained by the tax collector or other authorized agent of the department rather than deposited into the Highway Safety Operating Trust Fund; providing that a processing fee for specialty license plate requests is retained by the tax collector, less a specified charge, rather than deposited into the Highway Safety Operating Trust Fund; providing that certain fees relating to specified symbols exhibited on identification cards and driver licenses, respectively, are retained by the tax collector, less a specified charge, rather than deposited into the Highway Safety Operating Trust Fund, etc.

Tax/Sales Taxes; Revises upward specified sales & use tax, requires certain percentage of collected revenues be used for specified purpose; requires specified surtax when property is transferred.

Electric Vehicle Registration Fees; Defining the term “battery electric vehicle”; requiring the owner of a battery electric vehicle to pay certain annual registration fees; requiring that such fees be deposited into the State Transportation Trust Fund and used for a certain purpose, etc.

Court Fees; Increases service charges clerk of circuit court charges for certain services rendered by clerk's office; increases certain filing fees & service charges that may be charged by clerk in probate matters; increases certain filing fees & service charges in trial & appellate proceedings; increases certain filing fees & service charges for civil actions, suits, or proceedings in county court; revises distribution formula for additional filing fees; increases service charge clerk is entitled to for disbursement of surplus proceeds for certain judicial sales procedures; increases filing fee for additional timeshare interests joining consolidated timeshare foreclosure action; increases fee clerk of circuit court may charge for auditing of return of ward's estate; requires Office of Economic & Demographic Research to prepare certain report; requires such report to be submitted to Legislature.

Tourist Development Tax; Authorizing the use of proceeds from the tourist development tax to fund public safety improvements, affordable housing, and workforce housing, etc.

Clerks of the Court; Authorizing the cumulative excess of funds to be used in the development of the total combined budgets of the clerks of the court; requiring that a court use certain sale procedures in a foreclosure action; providing that only a clerk of court may conduct a foreclosure sale, etc.