Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SJR 536
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                 Comm: UNFAV           .                                
                  03/17/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Ethics and Elections (Grall) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 46 - 96
    4  and insert:
    5  served, in that office for a total of twelve consecutive years.
    6         (2) Beginning November 3, 2026, no person may appear on the
    7  ballot for election or re-election to the office of state
    8  representative or state senator if, by the end of the current
    9  term of office, the person will have served, or, but for
   10  resignation, would have served, in state legislative office for
   11  a total of twenty-four years, regardless of whether such service
   12  was consecutive or nonconsecutive.
   13         (3) After November 3, 2026, a person may appear on the
   14  ballot for re-election to the office of state senator if service
   15  of a complete term of office was shortened by apportionment.
   16  Such person may still qualify for election or re-election for
   17  this subsequent term, even if the term exceeds the limits
   18  provided in paragraph (1) or paragraph (2).
   19                             ARTICLE XII                           
   20                              SCHEDULE                             
   21         Implementation of revised term limits for legislators.—
   22         (a) This section and the amendment to Section 4 of Article
   23  VI imposing term limits of twenty-four years of service on state
   24  representatives and state senators shall take effect upon
   25  approval by the electors.
   26         (b) If a person would otherwise be prohibited from
   27  appearing on the ballot for election or re-election by paragraph
   28  (d)(1) of Section 4 of Article VI, but the person’s term of
   29  office was shortened as a result of apportionment, such person
   30  may subsequently appear on the ballot for election or re
   31  election to a state legislative office for another term. Service
   32  of this additional term does not count toward the limit in
   33  paragraph (d)(2) of Section 4 of Article VI. Such person may not
   34  seek additional terms in such legislative office.
   35         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following statement be
   36  placed on the ballot:
   37                      CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT                     
   38                        ARTICLE VI, SECTION 4                      
   39                             ARTICLE XII                           
   40         TERM LIMITS FOR STATE SENATORS AND STATE REPRESENTATIVES.
   41  This amendment revises term limits for state representatives and
   42  state senators from 8 consecutive years to 12 total years in
   43  either office. This amendment specifies that state legislators
   44  are limited to 24