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All storiesAmendment 3 is on the Nov. 3 ballot. Here are the dates that matter.
Registration closes Oct. 5. The mail-ballot request deadline is Oct. 22. The amendment needs at least 60 percent to pass.
Market value, assessed value and taxable value are not the same number
Amendment 3 changes an exemption and one assessment cap. It does not set every local tax rate, and it does not produce the same savings for every home.
No, Amendment 3 does not reset every homestead to market value
The sentence being circulated as a new reset is existing constitutional language. Save Our Homes remains in place.
A judge threw out Amendment 3's first ballot language. The measure stayed on the ballot.
The Attorney General rewrote the title and summary after an August court order. The proposed constitutional text itself did not change.
A No vote on Amendment 3 would not undo Florida's new millage law
The constitutional amendment is still on the ballot. The law governing how local boards set property-tax rates already passed and stays in force either way.
Amendment 3
Amendment 3 would raise the homestead exemption on city and county taxes. Orange County has modeled a $165 million difference in 2027, but it has not posted the rate assumption. Voters decide Nov. 3.
Amendment 3