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    Florida Senate - 2005                 CS for SJR's 1210 & 1362

    By the Committee on Ethics and Elections; and Senators Sebesta
    and Clary




    582-1784-05

  1                Senate Joint Resolution No. _____

  2         A joint resolution proposing an amendment to

  3         Section 4 of Article VI and the creation of

  4         Section 26 of Article XII of the State

  5         Constitution, relating to qualifications of

  6         candidates for public office, to increase the

  7         time a person may serve as state senator or

  8         state representative before being disqualified

  9         from a consecutive candidacy.

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

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13         That the following amendment to Section 4 of Article VI

14  and the creation of Section 26 of Article XII of the State

15  Constitution are agreed to and shall be submitted to the

16  electors of this state for approval or rejection at the next

17  general election or at an earlier special election

18  specifically authorized by law for that purpose:

19                            ARTICLE VI

20                      SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS

21         SECTION 4.  Disqualifications.--

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

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

24  qualified to vote or hold office until restoration of civil

25  rights or removal of disability.

26         (b)  No person may appear on the ballot for relection

27  re-election to any of the following offices:

28         (1)  Florida representative,

29         (2)  Florida senator,

30         (1)(3)  Florida Lieutenant governor, or

31         (2)(4)  any office of the Florida cabinet,

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

 2         (6)  U.S. Senator from Florida

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

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

 6  that office for eight consecutive years.

 7         (c)  No person may appear on the ballot for reelection

 8  to either of the following offices:

 9         (1)  Florida representative, or

10         (2)  Florida senator

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

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

14  that office for twelve consecutive years.

15                           ARTICLE XII

16                             SCHEDULE

17         SECTION 26.  Term limits.--The amendment to Section 4

18  of Article VI denying ballot access for reelection to any

19  state legislator who will have served, or who but for

20  resignation would have served, in that office for twelve

21  consecutive years, rather than eight consecutive years, shall

22  take effect upon approval by the voters and shall apply only

23  to those officers whose consecutive years in office begin in

24  November 2006 or thereafter.

25         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following statement be

26  placed on the ballot:

27                     CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

28                      ARTICLE VI, SECTION 4

29                     ARTICLE XII, SECTION 26

30         TERM LIMITS; INCREASED ELIGIBILITY FOR STATE

31  LEGISLATIVE OFFICE.--Proposing an amendment to the State

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 1  Constitution to increase from 8 consecutive years to 12

 2  consecutive years the time a person may serve in the office of

 3  state senator or state representative before becoming

 4  disqualified to appear on the ballot for reelection, with such

 5  increase applicable to persons whose consecutive years of

 6  office begin in November 2006 or thereafter. The amendment

 7  also deletes provisions relating to term limits for members of

 8  Congress and U.S. Senators, which provisions have been

 9  determined by the U.S. Supreme Court to violate the U.S.

10  Constitution.

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12          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
13              Senate Joint Resolutions 1210 and 1362

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15  The Committee Substitute proposes a joint resolution that
    differs from the original bill in that it:  combines SJRs 1210
16  and 1362, but maintains the substantive language of SJR 1210.

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