Senate Bill sb0192

    Florida Senate - 2002                                  SJR 192

    By Senator Miller





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  1                 Senate Joint Resolution No. ____

  2         A joint resolution proposing the amendment of

  3         Section 4 of Article IX of the State

  4         Constitution, relating to education, to limit

  5         the term of office for a member of a district

  6         school board.

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  8  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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10         That the following amendment of Section 4 of Article IX

11  of the State Constitution is agreed to and shall be submitted

12  to the electors of this state for approval or rejection at the

13  next general election or at an earlier special election

14  specifically authorized by law for that purpose:

15                            ARTICLE IX

16                            EDUCATION

17         SECTION 4.  School districts; school boards.--

18         (a)  Each county shall constitute a school district;

19  provided, two or more contiguous counties, upon vote of the

20  electors of each county pursuant to law, may be combined into

21  one school district.  In each school district there shall be a

22  school board composed of five or more members chosen by vote

23  of the electors in a nonpartisan election for appropriately

24  staggered terms of four years, as provided by law. A person

25  may not serve as a member of a district school board if, by

26  the end of the current term of office, that person will have

27  served, or, but for resignation, would have served, in that

28  office for twelve consecutive years.

29         (b)  The school board shall operate, control and

30  supervise all free public schools within the school district

31  and determine the rate of school district taxes within the

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    Florida Senate - 2002                                  SJR 192
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  1  limits prescribed herein.  Two or more school districts may

  2  operate and finance joint educational programs.

  3         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following statement be

  4  placed on the ballot:

  5                     CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

  6                      ARTICLE IX, SECTION 4

  7         LIMITATION ON TERMS OF OFFICE FOR MEMBERS OF A DISTRICT

  8  SCHOOL BOARD.--Proposing an amendment to the State

  9  Constitution to provide that a person may not serve more than

10  12 consecutive years as a member of a district school board.

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