Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SJR 802
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
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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 57 - 126
    4  and insert:
    5  a member of the board for twelve years. Service in a term of
    6  office which commences on or before November 3, 2026, does not
    7  count toward the limitation imposed by this subsection.
    8         (f) NON-CHARTER GOVERNMENT. Counties not operating under
    9  county charters shall have such power of self-government as is
   10  provided by general or special law. The board of county
   11  commissioners of a county not operating under a charter may
   12  enact, in a manner prescribed by general law, county ordinances
   13  not inconsistent with general or special law, but an ordinance
   14  in conflict with a municipal ordinance shall not be effective
   15  within the municipality to the extent of such conflict.
   16         (g) CHARTER GOVERNMENT. Counties operating under county
   17  charters shall have all powers of local self-government not
   18  inconsistent with general law, or with special law approved by
   19  vote of the electors. The governing body of a county operating
   20  under a charter may enact county ordinances not inconsistent
   21  with general law. The charter shall provide which shall prevail
   22  in the event of conflict between county and municipal
   23  ordinances.
   24         (h) TAXES; LIMITATION. Property situate within
   25  municipalities shall not be subject to taxation for services
   26  rendered by the county exclusively for the benefit of the
   27  property or residents in unincorporated areas.
   28         (i) COUNTY ORDINANCES. Each county ordinance shall be
   29  filed with the custodian of state records and shall become
   30  effective at such time thereafter as is provided by general law.
   31         (j) VIOLATION OF ORDINANCES. Persons violating county
   32  ordinances shall be prosecuted and punished as provided by law.
   33         (k) COUNTY SEAT. In every county there shall be a county
   34  seat at which shall be located the principal offices and
   35  permanent records of all county officers. The county seat may
   36  not be moved except as provided by general law. Branch offices
   37  for the conduct of county business may be established elsewhere
   38  in the county by resolution of the governing body of the county
   39  in the manner prescribed by law. No instrument shall be deemed
   40  recorded until filed at the county seat, or a branch office
   41  designated by the governing body of the county for the recording
   42  of instruments, according to law.
   43                             ARTICLE IX                            
   44                              EDUCATION                            
   45         SECTION 4. School districts; school boards.—
   46         (a) Each county shall constitute a school district;
   47  provided, two or more contiguous counties, upon vote of the
   48  electors of each county pursuant to law, may be combined into
   49  one school district. In each school district there shall be a
   50  school board composed of five or more members chosen by vote of
   51  the electors in a nonpartisan election for appropriately
   52  staggered terms of four years, as provided by law. A person may
   53  not appear on the ballot for re-election to the office of school
   54  board member, if by the end of the current term of office, that
   55  person will have served, or, but for resignation, would have
   56  served, as a member of the school board for twelve years.
   57  Service of a term of office which commenced before November 8,
   58  2022, does not count toward the limitation imposed by this
   59  subsection.
   60         (b) The school board shall operate, control and supervise
   61  all free public schools within the school district and determine
   62  the rate of school district taxes within the limits prescribed
   63  herein. Two or more school districts may operate and finance
   64  joint educational programs.
   65         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following statement be
   66  placed on the ballot:
   67                      CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT                     
   68                       ARTICLE VIII, SECTION 1                     
   69                        ARTICLE IX, SECTION 4                      
   70         TERM LIMITS FOR MEMBERS OF COUNTY COMMISSIONS AND DISTRICT
   71  SCHOOL BOARDS.—This amendment to the State Constitution provides
   72  that a person is limited to serving twelve years as a member of
   73  a county commission and applies to terms of office that commence
   74  after November 3, 2026. This amendment also provides that a
   75  person is limited to serving twelve years as a member of a