Bill Text: FL S1410 | 2023 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requiring Broader Public Support for Constitutional Amendments or Revisions

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2023-05-05 - Died in Ethics and Elections [S1410 Detail]

Download: Florida-2023-S1410-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2023                                   SJR 1410
       
       
        
       By Senator Gruters
       
       
       
       
       
       22-01493-23                                           20231410__
    1                       Senate Joint Resolution                     
    2         A joint resolution proposing an amendment to Section 5
    3         of Article XI of the State Constitution to increase
    4         the percentage of elector votes required to approve an
    5         amendment to or a revision of the State Constitution
    6         from 60 percent to 66.67 percent, except that the
    7         repeal of an amendment or revision need only be
    8         approved by the same percentage of elector votes as
    9         was required at the time of passage of such amendment
   10         or revision.
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   12  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   14         That the following amendment to Section 5 of Article XI of
   15  the State Constitution is agreed to and shall be submitted to
   16  the electors of this state for approval or rejection at the next
   17  general election or at an earlier special election specifically
   18  authorized by law for that purpose:
   19                             ARTICLE XI                            
   20                             AMENDMENTS                            
   21         SECTION 5. Amendment or revision election.—
   22         (a) A proposed amendment to or revision of this
   23  constitution, or any part of it, shall be submitted to the
   24  electors at the next general election held more than ninety days
   25  after the joint resolution or report of revision commission,
   26  constitutional convention or taxation and budget reform
   27  commission proposing it is filed with the custodian of state
   28  records, unless, pursuant to law enacted by the affirmative vote
   29  of three-fourths of the membership of each house of the
   30  legislature and limited to a single amendment or revision, it is
   31  submitted at an earlier special election held more than ninety
   32  days after such filing.
   33         (b) A proposed amendment or revision of this constitution,
   34  or any part of it, by initiative shall be submitted to the
   35  electors at the general election provided the initiative
   36  petition is filed with the custodian of state records no later
   37  than February 1 of the year in which the general election is
   38  held.
   39         (c) The legislature shall provide by general law, prior to
   40  the holding of an election pursuant to this section, for the
   41  provision of a statement to the public regarding the probable
   42  financial impact of any amendment proposed by initiative
   43  pursuant to section 3.
   44         (d) Once in the tenth week, and once in the sixth week
   45  immediately preceding the week in which the election is held,
   46  the proposed amendment or revision, with notice of the date of
   47  election at which it will be submitted to the electors, shall be
   48  published in one newspaper of general circulation in each county
   49  in which a newspaper is published.
   50         (e) Unless otherwise specifically provided for elsewhere in
   51  this constitution, if the proposed amendment or revision is
   52  approved by vote of at least sixty-six and sixty-seven
   53  hundredths sixty percent of the electors voting on the measure,
   54  it shall be effective as an amendment to or revision of the
   55  constitution of the state on the first Tuesday after the first
   56  Monday in January following the election, or on such other date
   57  as may be specified in the amendment or revision. However, the
   58  repeal of an amendment to or a revision of this constitution
   59  only requires the approval by vote of at least the same
   60  percentage of the electors as was required at the time of
   61  passage of such amendment or revision.
   62         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following statement be
   63  placed on the ballot:
   64                      CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT                     
   65                        ARTICLE XI, SECTION 5                      
   66         REQUIRING BROADER PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR CONSTITUTIONAL
   67  AMENDMENTS OR REVISIONS.—Proposing an amendment to the State
   68  Constitution to increase the percentage of elector votes
   69  required to approve an amendment to or a revision of the State
   70  Constitution from 60 percent to 66.67 percent, except that the
   71  repeal of an amendment or revision need only be approved by the
   72  same percentage of elector votes as was required at the time of
   73  passage of such amendment or revision.