Florida Senate - 2006                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SJR 626
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11  Senator Saunders moved the following amendment:
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13         Senate Amendment 
14         Delete everything after the resolving clause
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17         That the following amendment to Section 6 of Article X
18  of the State Constitution is agreed to and shall be submitted
19  to the electors of this state for approval or rejection at the
20  next general election or at an earlier special election
21  specifically authorized by law for that purpose:
22                            ARTICLE X
23                          MISCELLANEOUS
24         SECTION 6.  Eminent domain.--
25         (a)  No private property shall be taken except for a
26  public purpose and with full compensation therefor paid to
27  each owner or secured by deposit in the registry of the court
28  and available to the owner.
29         (b)  Provision may be made by law for the taking of
30  easements, by like proceedings, for the drainage of the land
31  of one person over or through the land of another.
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    Florida Senate - 2006                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SJR 626
                        Barcode 981954
 1         (c)  Private property may not be taken and conveyed to
 2  a natural person or private entity except as provided by
 3  general law passed by a three-fifths vote of the membership of
 4  each house of the Legislature.
 5         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following statement be
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 7                     CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
 8                       ARTICLE X, SECTION 6
 9         EMINENT DOMAIN.--Proposing an amendment to the State
10  Constitution to provide that private property may not be taken
11  through the exercise of eminent domain and conveyed to a
12  natural person or private entity except as provided by general
13  law passed by a three-fifths vote of the membership of each
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