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    SJR 566                                  First Engrossed (ntc)



  1                 Senate Joint Resolution No. 566

  2         A joint resolution proposing an amendment to

  3         Section 2 of Article I of the State

  4         Constitution, relating to basic rights.

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

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  8         That the following amendment to Section 2 of Article I

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

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

11  next general election or at an earlier special election

12  specifically authorized by law for that purpose:

13                            ARTICLE I

14                      DECLARATION OF RIGHTS

15         SECTION 2.  Basic rights.--All natural persons, female

16  and male alike, are equal before the law and have inalienable

17  rights, among which are the right to enjoy and defend life and

18  liberty, to pursue happiness, to be rewarded for industry, and

19  to acquire, possess and protect property; except that the

20  ownership, inheritance, disposition and possession of real

21  property by terrorists or persons affiliated with terrorism,

22  as defined by general law, aliens ineligible for citizenship

23  may be regulated or prohibited by law. No person shall be

24  deprived of any right because of race, religion, national

25  origin, or physical disability.

26         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following statement be

27  placed on the ballot:

28                     CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

29                       ARTICLE I, SECTION 2

30         DECLARATION OF RIGHTS.--Proposing an amendment to the

31  State Constitution which will authorize the Legislature to


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    SJR 566                                  First Engrossed (ntc)



 1  regulate or prohibit the ownership, inheritance, disposition,

 2  and possession of real property by terrorists or persons

 3  affiliated with terrorism and to define those terms by general

 4  law and will also delete its authority to regulate or prohibit

 5  the ownership, inheritance, disposition, and possession of

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