Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SJR 1954
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/27/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Rules (Flores) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 62 - 88
    4  and insert:
    5  member of that delegation. The charter shall provide for fixed
    6  term limits of Miami-Dade County Commissioners.
    7         (f) MIAMI-DADE DADE COUNTY; POWERS CONFERRED UPON
    8  MUNICIPALITIES. To the extent not inconsistent with the powers
    9  of existing municipalities or general law, the Metropolitan
   10  Government of Miami-Dade Dade County may exercise all the powers
   11  conferred now or hereafter by general law upon municipalities.
   12         (g) DELETION OF OBSOLETE SCHEDULE ITEMS. The legislature
   13  shall have power, by joint resolution, to delete from this
   14  article any subsection of this Section 6, including this
   15  subsection, when all events to which the subsection to be
   16  deleted is or could become applicable have occurred. A
   17  legislative determination of fact made as a basis for
   18  application of this subsection shall be subject to judicial
   19  review.
   20         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following statement be
   21  placed on the ballot:
   22                      CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT                     
   23                       ARTICLE VIII, SECTION 6                     
   24         AUTHORIZING AMENDMENTS TO MIAMI-DADE COUNTY HOME RULE
   25  CHARTER BY SPECIAL LAW APPROVED BY REFERENDUM.—Authorizes
   26  amendments or revisions to the Miami-Dade County Home Rule
   27  Charter by a special law when the law is approved by a vote of
   28  the electors of Miami-Dade County. A bill proposing such a
   29  special law must be approved at a meeting of the local
   30  legislative delegation and filed by a member of that delegation.
   31  It also conforms references in the State Constitution to reflect
   32  the county’s current name and requires that the Miami-Dade
   33  County charter provide for fixed term limits of commissioners.
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   36         And the title is amended as follows:
   37         Delete line 7
   38  and insert:
   39         proposing such a special law; requiring that the
   40         Miami-Dade County charter provide for fixed term
   41         limits of commissioners.