HOUSE AMENDMENT Bill No. HJR 309 CS
1	CHAMBER ACTION
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12	Representative Bendross-Mindingall offered the following:
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14	Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
15	Remove everything after the resolving clause, and insert:
16	That the following amendment to Section 4 of Article VI of
17	the State Constitution is agreed to and shall be submitted to
18	the electors of this state for approval or rejection at the
19	general election to be held in November 2004, or at an earlier
20	special election specifically authorized by law for that
21	purpose:
22	ARTICLE VI
23	SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS
24	SECTION 4. Disqualifications.--
25	(a) No person convicted of a felony, or adjudicated in
26	this or any other state to be mentally incompetent, shall be
27	qualified to vote orhold office until restoration of civil
28	rights or removal of disability. No person convicted of a felony
29	shall be qualified to vote until the person’s right to register
30	or vote has been restored, as provided by law. No person
31	adjudicated in this or any other state to be mentally
32	incompetent shall be qualified to vote or hold office until
33	removal of disability.
34	(b) No person may appear on the ballot for re-election to
35	any of the following offices:
36	(1) Florida representative,
37	(2) Florida senator,
38	(3) Florida Lieutenant governor,
39	(4) any office of the Florida cabinet,
40	(5) U.S. Representative from Florida, or
41	(6) U.S. Senator from Florida
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43	if, by the end of the current term of office, the person will
44	have served (or, but for resignation, would have served) in that
45	office for eight consecutive years.
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47	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the title and substance of the
48	amendment proposed herein shall appear on the ballot as follows:
49	QUALIFICATIONS OF FELONS TO VOTE
50	Proposes an amendment to the State Constitution to
51	authorize the Legislature to provide the conditions under which
52	a convicted felon’s right to register or vote may be restored by
53	statute.
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56	Remove everything before the resolving clause, and insert:
57	House Joint Resolution
58	A joint resolution proposing an amendment to Section 4 of
59	Article VI of the State Constitution, relating to suffrage
60	and elections, authorizing the Legislature to provide the
61	conditions under which a convicted felon’s right to
62	register and vote may be restored.