Florida Senate - 2014                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SM 368
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/03/2014           .                                
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       (Bean) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the resolving clause
    4  and insert:
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    6         ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================And the title is amended as follows:Delete everything before the resolving clauseand insert:Senate MemorialA memorial to the Congress of the United States, applying to Congress to call a convention for the purpose of proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that every law enacted by Congress shall embrace only one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title.WHEREAS, each measure before a legislative body should pass on its own merits without depending on legislative support for other unrelated measures to achieve the required number of votes for passage, andWHEREAS, a single-subject constitutional provision addresses this concern by prohibiting a legislative body from enacting a law that embraces more than one subject, andWHEREAS, 41 of the 50 states, including Florida, have a single-subject provision in their respective state constitutions, and the legislatures and citizens of these states have benefited from a single-subject requirement, andWHEREAS, the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America, touching the lives of every citizen in the several states, but is missing this important provision, andWHEREAS, our great country is deep in debt and Congress is currently searching for a solution, andWHEREAS, a federal single-subject amendment would provide the means to limit pork barrel spending, control the phenomenon of legislating through riders, limit omnibus legislation produced by logrolling, prevent public surprise, and increase the institutional accountability of Congress and its members, andWHEREAS, it is Florida’s hope and desire that Congress will be able to conduct its business in a more productive, efficient, transparent, and less acrimonious way with a single-subject requirement, andWHEREAS, Article V of the Constitution of the United States makes provision for amending the Constitution on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, calling a convention for proposing amendments that shall be valid to all intents and purposes if ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states or by conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by Congress, NOW, THEREFORE,