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The Legislature expressly authorized the Department of Revenue to adopt emergency rules that implement the provisions of Chapter 2007-321 and Chapter 2008-173 (Senate Bill 1588), Laws of Florida. The law provides that these emergency rules remain in effect for a period of 18 months and that they may be renewed. The forms included here are based on the requirements of Chapter 2008-173 (Senate Bill 1588), Laws of Florida, as passed by the 2008 Legislature, and will replace the forms used in previous years. The Department of Revenue has taken several actions to inform interested parties about the forms, procedures, and emergency rules that are being developed to implement this new law, and to give such parties an opportunity to review and comment. These interested parties include Property Appraisers and the professional associations that represent them, counties, municipalities, and independent districts, their associations, and practitioners who have told the Department that they want to receive all information associated with property tax rulemaking. The actions that the Department has taken include: making the proposed drafts available via the Internet on two separate occasions for public review and comments, establishing a new Department email address to make it easier for interested parties to submit comments and questions to the agency; emailing copies of the draft forms to interested parties, as well as receiving and incorporating public comments on the drafts of forms DR-420MM-P, DR-420, DR-420TIF, and DR-420VMA.