Florida Senate - 2011                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS/CS/HB 1355, 1st Eng.
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Smith moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (404618) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    5         Delete line 1580
    6  and insert:
    7         (4) If the Supreme Court finds in an advisory opinion
    8  issued pursuant to s. 3(b)(10), Art. IV of the State
    9  Constitution that the ballot title or ballot summary embodied in
   10  a constitutional amendment proposed by citizen initiative is
   11  defective, the sponsor of the initiative may, within 10 days,
   12  prepare and submit to the Department of State a revised ballot
   13  title or ballot summary that corrects the deficiencies
   14  identified by the court. The court shall retain jurisdiction
   15  over challenges to a revised ballot title or ballot summary
   16  prepared by the initiative sponsor, and any challenge to a
   17  revised ballot title or ballot summary must be filed within 10
   18  days after a revised ballot title or ballot summary is submitted
   19  to the Department of State.
   20         (5)(3)(a) For any general election in which the Secretary
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   23         And the title is amended as follows:
   24         Delete line 4132
   25  and insert:
   26         amendment or revision; authorizing the sponsor of a
   27         citizen initiative amendment to the State Constitution
   28         to revise the ballot title or ballot summary that is
   29         found to be defective by the Supreme Court; requiring
   30         an action to challenge a revised ballot title or
   31         ballot summary of a citizen initiative to be initiated
   32         within a certain time; providing for retroactive