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    Florida Senate - 2005                                    SJR 6

    By Senator King





    8-3-05

  1                 Senate Joint Resolution No. ____

  2         A joint resolution proposing an amendment to

  3         Section 5 of Article XI of the State

  4         Constitution; requiring that a proposed

  5         amendment to or revision of the State

  6         Constitution be approved by at least

  7         three-fifths of the electors of the state

  8         voting on the measure.

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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 5 of Article XI

13  of the State Constitution, as amended by Revision No. 2, 2004,

14  is agreed to and shall be submitted to the electors of this

15  state for approval or rejection at the next general election

16  or at an earlier special election specifically authorized by

17  law for that purpose:

18                            ARTICLE XI

19                            AMENDMENTS

20         SECTION 5.  Amendment or revision election.--

21         (a)  A proposed amendment to or revision of this

22  constitution, or any part of it, shall be submitted to the

23  electors at the next general election held more than ninety

24  days after the joint resolution or report of revision

25  commission, constitutional convention or taxation and budget

26  reform commission proposing it is filed with the custodian of

27  state records, unless, pursuant to law enacted by the

28  affirmative vote of three-fourths of the membership of each

29  house of the legislature and limited to a single amendment or

30  revision, it is submitted at an earlier special election held

31  more than ninety days after such filing.

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 1         (b)  A proposed amendment or revision of this

 2  constitution, or any part of it, by initiative shall be

 3  submitted to the electors at the general election provided the

 4  initiative petition is filed with the custodian of state

 5  records no later than February 1 of the year in which the

 6  general election is held.

 7         (c)  The legislature shall provide by general law,

 8  prior to the holding of an election pursuant to this section,

 9  for the provision of a statement to the public regarding the

10  probable financial impact of any amendment proposed by

11  initiative pursuant to section 3.

12         (d)  Once in the tenth week, and once in the sixth week

13  immediately preceding the week in which the election is held,

14  the proposed amendment or revision, with notice of the date of

15  election at which it will be submitted to the electors, shall

16  be published in one newspaper of general circulation in each

17  county in which a newspaper is published.

18         (e)  If the proposed amendment or revision is approved

19  by vote of at least three-fifths of the electors voting on the

20  measure, it shall be effective as an amendment to or revision

21  of the constitution of the state on the first Tuesday after

22  the first Monday in January following the election, or on such

23  other date as may be specified in the amendment or revision.

24         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following statement be

25  placed on the ballot:

26                     CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

27                      ARTICLE XI, SECTION 5

28         APPROVAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS OR

29  REVISIONS.--Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution

30  to require that a proposed constitutional amendment or

31  revision be approved by at least three-fifths of the electors

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