CRC - 2017                                                  P 97
       
       
        
       By Commissioner Keiser
       
       keiserb-00072B-17                                       201797__
    1                         A proposal to amend                       
    2         Section 5 of Article XI of the State Constitution to
    3         require that any proposed amendment to or revision of
    4         the State Constitution be approved by a vote of not
    5         fewer than 60 percent of the voters voting in the
    6         election in which the proposed amendment or revision
    7         is considered.
    8          
    9  Be It Proposed by the Constitution Revision Commission of
   10  Florida:
   11  
   12         Section 5 of Article XI of the State Constitution is
   13  amended to read:
   14                             ARTICLE XI                            
   15                             AMENDMENTS                            
   16         SECTION 5. Amendment or revision election.—
   17         (a) A proposed amendment to or revision of this
   18  constitution, or any part of it, shall be submitted to the
   19  electors at the next general election held more than ninety days
   20  after the joint resolution or report of revision commission,
   21  constitutional convention or taxation and budget reform
   22  commission proposing it is filed with the custodian of state
   23  records, unless, pursuant to law enacted by the affirmative vote
   24  of three-fourths of the membership of each house of the
   25  legislature and limited to a single amendment or revision, it is
   26  submitted at an earlier special election held more than ninety
   27  days after such filing.
   28         (b) A proposed amendment or revision of this constitution,
   29  or any part of it, by initiative shall be submitted to the
   30  electors at the general election provided the initiative
   31  petition is filed with the custodian of state records no later
   32  than February 1 of the year in which the general election is
   33  held.
   34         (c) The legislature shall provide by general law, prior to
   35  the holding of an election pursuant to this section, for the
   36  provision of a statement to the public regarding the probable
   37  financial impact of any amendment proposed by initiative
   38  pursuant to section 3.
   39         (d) Once in the tenth week, and once in the sixth week
   40  immediately preceding the week in which the election is held,
   41  the proposed amendment or revision, with notice of the date of
   42  election at which it will be submitted to the electors, shall be
   43  published in one newspaper of general circulation in each county
   44  in which a newspaper is published.
   45         (e) Unless otherwise specifically provided for elsewhere in
   46  this constitution, if the proposed amendment or revision is
   47  approved by vote of not fewer than at least sixty percent of the
   48  voters electors voting in the election in which such proposed
   49  amendment or revision is considered on the measure, it shall be
   50  effective as an amendment to or revision of the constitution of
   51  the state on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January
   52  following the election, or on such other date as may be
   53  specified in the amendment or revision.