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Amendment 6 attempts to repeal public campaign financing. In 1998, Florida voters changed the state constitution so that candidates running for governor and other state cabinet positions could ...
Public campaign financing was enshrined in the state Constitution after a 1998 amendment — the same one that made school board positions nonpartisan (see 2024's Amendment 1).
State applications for an Article V convention (and rescissions thereof) State Issue / Topic Date of approval by state's legislature Receipt by Congress Application classification (or year of application's rescission) Virginia Bill of Rights November 14, 1788: AC V.1 258-259 (II) 2004 New York Bill of Rights February 5, 1789: AC V.1 282 Text ...
2022 Florida Amendment 3 was a proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution, which failed on November 8, 2022.Through a statewide referendum, the amendment achieved only 58.7% support among voters in the U.S. state of Florida, short of the 60% majority required by state law, [1] although higher than the 2006 amendment which created the 60% requirement.
The Florida Legislature is authorized by the Florida Constitution to create and amend the laws of the state of Florida, subject to the governor's power to veto legislation. To do so, legislators propose legislation in the forms of bills drafted by a nonpartisan, professional staff.
But a parents' rights provision that would have let failing third graders move on to fourth was stricken.
Senate Bill 266 advanced in the Florida state senate's appropriations committee on April 13, 2023. The Florida Senate passed the bill on April 28, 2023, by a margin of 27-12. [19] The House version of the bill passed by a vote of 81-34 on May 3, 2023. [20] Governor Ron DeSantis signed the bill concurrently with Florida House Bill 931 on May 15 ...
By the time the Florida Legislature kicked off its 2023 session Tuesday, Republican lawmakers had already pre-filed a trio of bills that would expand a recently enacted education law that ...