Florida Senate - 2006 SENATOR AMENDMENT
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11 Senators Webster, Campbell, and Klein moved the following
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14 Senate Amendment
15 On page 153, lines 11-25, delete those lines
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18 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following statement be
19 placed on the ballot:
20 CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION
21 MULTIPLE ARTICLES
22 REPEAL OF OBSOLETE PROVISIONS; LEGISLATION BY STATUTORY
23 INITIATIVE; PRESERVATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS AS
24 STATUTES.--Proposing a revision of the State Constitution to
25 correct spelling errors, punctuation errors, and grammatical
26 errors, repeal obsolete provisions, repeal provisions that
27 violate the United States Constitution, and make technical
28 changes; to correct an erroneous filing date in Article XI,
29 section 6(e), which relates to the Taxation and Budget Reform
30 Commission; to require the legislature to provide by law
31 effective by July 1, 2008, for a statutory initiative process
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1 by which citizens may propose statutes; and to provide for the
2 repeal of certain constitutional provisions and their
3 preservation as statutes. The statutory initiative process and
4 the repeal and preservation of certain constitutional
5 provisions as statutes are described in detail below.
6 ARTICLE III, SECTION 20 and ARTICLE XII, SECTION 20
7 Statutory initiative and implementation.--Proposing the
8 creation of new sections of the State Constitution to require
9 the legislature to prescribe a process by law effective no
10 later than July 1, 2008, by which citizens may propose
11 statutes; to provide that the statutory initiative process is
12 subject to conditions, limitations, and exceptions prescribed
13 by the legislature; and to provide that a statute originating
14 as a statutory initiative may not be amended or repealed by
15 the legislature for five years after its adoption, except upon
16 a two-thirds vote of both houses of the legislature.
17 ARTICLE XII, SECTION 8
18 Preservation of constitutional provisions as
19 statutes.--Proposing to repeal the following provisions from
20 the State Constitution, codify them in the Florida Statutes,
21 and prohibit the Legislature from modifying, repealing, or
22 acting inconsistently with those statutes until January 2,
23 2015, except upon a three-fourths vote of both houses of the
24 Legislature:
25 ARTICLE I, SECTION 26
26 Claimant's right to fair compensation.--This provision
27 provides that an injured claimant who enters into a
28 contingency fee agreement with an attorney in a claim for
29 medical liability is entitled to no less than 70 percent of
30 the first $250,000.00 in all damages received by the claimant,
31 and 90 percent of damages in excess of $250,000.00, exclusive
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1 of reasonable and customary costs and regardless of the number
2 of defendants.
3 ARTICLE X, SECTION 21
4 Limiting cruel and inhumane confinement of pigs during
5 pregnancy.--This provision makes it unlawful to confine a pig
6 during pregnancy in a cage, crate or other enclosure, or
7 tether a pregnant pig, on a farm so that the pig is prevented
8 from turning around freely, except for veterinary purposes and
9 during the prebirthing period.
10 ARTICLE X, SECTION 25
11 Patients' right to know about adverse medical
12 incidents.--This provision gives patients the right to review,
13 upon request, records of health care facilities' or providers'
14 adverse medical incidents, including those which could cause
15 injury or death.
16 ARTICLE X, SECTION 26
17 Prohibition of medical license after repeated medical
18 malpractice.--This provision prohibits medical doctors who
19 have been found to have committed three or more incidents of
20 medical malpractice from being licensed to practice medicine
21 in Florida.
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