HB 1343 (Tuck) and CS/SB 1184 (Collins) increase the exemption from the levy of a county special assessment for fire protection services from $10,000 to $350,000 for the value of nonresidential farm buildings. The bills authorize the construction of housing for migrant farmworkers on land zoned agricultural without any local government approval by ordinance or resolution. The migrant farmworker housing may not exceed 5,000 square feet. The bills prohibit local governments from adopting a land use or zoning restriction, condition or regulation that requires the termination or surrender of an agricultural classification for any property. CS/SB 1184 was amended this week, increasing the migrant farmworker housing to not exceed 7,500 square feet and adding a requirement that the migrant workers have legal status to work in the United States. (Cruz)