Florida Senate - 2005                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. HJR 1741, 2nd Eng.
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11  Senator Atwater moved the following amendment to amendment
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14         Senate Amendment 
15         On page 3, line 25, through
16            page 4, line 26, delete those lines
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18  and insert:  TWO-THIRDS VOTE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
19  INCREASING STATE TAX OR FEE OR IMPOSING SIGNIFICANT FINANCIAL
20  IMPACT.--Proposing amendments to the State Constitution
21  requiring that a proposed amendment to or revision of the
22  State Constitution which increases an existing state tax or
23  fee must be approved by at least two-thirds of those voters
24  voting in the election in which the amendment of revision is
25  considered. For the purposes of this amendment, "existing
26  state tax or fee" means any tax or fee that produces revenue
27  subject to lump-sum or other appropriation by the Legislature,
28  either for the state general revenue fund or any trust fund,
29  if that tax or fee is in effect at the time of the election
30  when the proposed amendment or revision is considered. The
31  amendment also requires that a proposed amendment to or
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    Florida Senate - 2005                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. HJR 1741, 2nd Eng.
                        Barcode 023980
 1  revision of the State Constitution which imposes a significant
 2  financial impact on state government must be approved by at
 3  least two-thirds of those voters voting in the election in
 4  which the amendment or revision is considered. For the
 5  purposes of this amendment, a "significant financial impact"
 6  means a financial impact to the state, including requiring the
 7  Legislature to increase taxes in order to maintain the state
 8  budget at existing revenues and expenditures, in any state
 9  fiscal year prior to and including the first state fiscal year
10  of full implementation in an amount greater than two-tenths of
11  1 percent of the portion of the state budget appropriated from
12  the General Revenue Fund, as established in the General
13  Appropriations Act approved by the Governor, for the state
14  fiscal year ending in the year prior to the election in which
15  such proposed amendment or revision is considered. Currently,
16  any such proposal must be approved by only a simple majority
17  of those voting on the proposal unless it imposes a new state
18  tax or fee, in which case it must be approved by at least
19  two-thirds of those voters voting in the election in which it
20  is considered, as required by a constitutional amendment
21  adopted by Florida voters in 1996. This amendment also makes
22  conforming changes in this section of the State Constitution
23  and repeals obsolete provisions relating to items on the
24  November 8, 1994, ballot.
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