Update (October 2026): after a court ruling, the ballot title is now “Increased Homestead Exemption; Lower Cap on Increases in Non-Homestead Property Assessments.” Look for Amendment 3.
This November your ballot carries more than candidates. The “Save Our Homes from Excessive Property Taxes” amendment — CS/HJR 1-F — is on it too. It deserves a plain-English explanation rather than a slogan, so here is one.
Today a homesteaded Florida home gets roughly a $50,000 exemption. The amendment raises that to $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028 — applied to the non-school portion of your bill. For most homesteaded homes in Florida, that zeroes out the non-school property-tax line entirely.
School funding is untouched. That part of your bill works exactly as it does now, either way. People who were not Florida residents on December 31, 2026 get the larger exemption starting in their fifth year, and non-homestead property’s yearly assessment cap drops from 10% to 5%.
Sixty percent. Constitutional amendments in Florida don’t pass on a simple majority — they need a supermajority of voters to say yes.
I’m voting yes. And because the Legislature writes the law that implements any amendment voters approve, the practical question is who’s in the room when that happens. I’m asking to be in the majority that writes it — to deliver the relief without gutting the local services we all count on.
Rather than tell you what it’s worth, we built a calculator: enter your assessed value and your millage, see your own estimate. It’s on The Data page. For the district’s median home — $370,400 — it comes out around $2,300 a year at the full exemption.
Sources: CS/HJR 1-F, 2026F special session (Florida Senate and House bill records); Florida Division of Elections. Effective January 1, 2027 if ratified.