Senate Bill sb1190

    Florida Senate - 2005                                 SJR 1190

    By Senator Wilson





    33-7-05

  1                 Senate Joint Resolution No. ____

  2         A joint resolution proposing an amendment to

  3         Section 4 of Article VI of the State

  4         Constitution, relating to suffrage and

  5         elections, to provide for restoration of a

  6         felony offender's right to vote and hold office

  7         upon completion of incarceration and

  8         postconviction supervision.

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

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12         That the following amendment to Section 4 of Article VI

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

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

15  next general election or an earlier special election

16  specifically authorized by law for that purpose:

17                            ARTICLE VI

18                      SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS

19         SECTION 4.  Disqualifications.--

20         (a)  No person convicted of a felony, or adjudicated in

21  this or any other state to be mentally incompetent, shall be

22  qualified to vote or hold office until he or she has been

23  released from incarceration and any postconviction supervision

24  restoration of civil rights or removal of disability. No

25  person adjudicated in this or any other state to be mentally

26  incompetent shall be qualified to vote or hold office until

27  removal of disability.

28         (b)  No person may appear on the ballot for re-election

29  to any of the following offices:

30         (1)  Florida representative,

31         (2)  Florida senator,

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    Florida Senate - 2005                                 SJR 1190
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 1         (3)  Florida Lieutenant governor, or

 2         (4)  any office of the Florida cabinet,

 3         (5)  U.S. Representative from Florida, or

 4         (6)  U.S. Senator from Florida

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 6  if, by the end of the current term of office, the person will

 7  have served (or, but for resignation, would have served) in

 8  that office for eight consecutive years.

 9         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following statement be

10  placed on the ballot:

11                     CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

12                      ARTICLE VI, SECTION 4

13         RIGHT TO VOTE AND HOLD OFFICE.--Proposing an amendment

14  to the State Constitution to restore a felony offender's right

15  to vote and hold office upon his or her release from

16  incarceration and postconviction supervision. The amendment

17  also deletes inoperative provisions relating to term limits

18  for members of Congress and U.S. Senators, which provisions

19  have been determined by the U.S. Supreme Court to violate the

20  U.S. Constitution.

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