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Florida 2026 ballot measures
As of September 12, 2025, two statewide ballot measures were certified for the ballot in Florida in 2026.
On the ballot
| Type | Title | Subject | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Changes to Budget Stabilization Fund Amendment | Budget stabilization | Increase the amount of funds that may be retained in the budget stabilization fund from 10% to 25% of net general revenue among other changes | |
| Exempt Tangible Personal Property Used for Agriculture or Agritourism from Property Taxes Amendment | Agriculture; Tax exemptions | Exempt agricultural-related tangible personal property, such as farm equipment or tools, from property taxes |
Potential measures
Initiatives
| Type | Number | Title | Subject | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CICA | #25-01 | Marijuana Legalization Initiative | Marijuana | Legalizes marijuana for use by adults 21 and older; prohibits smoking or vaping marijuana in public spaces; prohibits packaging or marketing that appeal to children; provides for licensing for non-medical marijuana businesses |
| CICA | #24-01 | Top-Two Open Primaries for State Offices Initiative | Elections and campaigns | Creates a top-two open primary system for primary elections for state legislators, the governor, and cabinet (attorney general, chief financial officer, and commissioner of agriculture) in Florida |
| CICA | #25-02 | Allow Electronic Signatures for Initiative Petitions or Candidate Ballot Access Initiative | Elections and campaigns and Direct democracy measures | Allows electronic signatures for individuals signing petitions for candidate ballot access or for constitutional amendment initiative petitions |
| CICA | #25-03 | Require Insurance Rate Reductions for Policies with No Claims in Past Year Initiative | Insurance | Requires a 4% insurance rate reduction for policies that have filed no claims in the past 365 days prior to renewal |
| CICA | #25-04 | Require Voter Approval for Initiative Process Changes Amendment | Direct democracy measures | Requires voter approval for changes to requirements concerning initiative sponsoring committees, initiative processes, and initiative financial impact statements |
| CICA | #25-05 | Initiative Process Requirements Amendment | Direct democracy measures | Change initiative process requirements including petition forms and timelines for review |
| CICA | #22-09 | Executive Clemency Initiative | Civil and criminal trials, State executive measures | Requires applications for executive clemency to be considered individually and voted on during the term in which they were filed; requires the governor to give an annual address discussing the number of clemency applications filed and the number of clemency applications granted and denied |
| CICA | #21-12 | Change the Commissioner of Education to a Cabinet Position Initiative | State executive official measures | Changes the Florida Commissioner of Education to a cabinet position |
| CICA | #24-05 | Establish Non-Denominational Daily Prayer in K-12 Schools Initiative | Religion and Education | Establishes a daily non-denominational prayer in K-12 schools |
| CICA | #22-11 | Extend Legislative Sessions Initiative | State legislatures measures | Extends legislative session from 60 days to 300 days |
| CICA | #22-15 | Prohibit Mandatory Sentences Initiative | Civil and criminal trials | Provides that the legislature may set sentencing guidelines in statute but that the legislature may not prescribe a mandatory sentence for any offense; provides that sentencing judges have discretion to impose sentences they deem appropriate; provides that individuals currently serving a mandatory sentence may request a rehearing to allow the sentencing judge to reconsider the sentence |
| CICA | #22-14 | Require Jury Recommendation on Mandatory Sentences Sought by State Initiative | Civil and criminal trials | Requires jury approval or disapproval for any mandatory sentence sought by the state; requires sentencing judge to consider the jury's recommendation and articulate reasons for accepting or refusing jury recommendation |
| CICA | #22-16 | Require Votes on Bills from Both Chambers Before End of Legislative Session Initiative | State legislatures measures | Requires all bills filed to be voted on by both chambers of the legislature before the end of the legislative session; requires the legislative session to be extended until bills are voted on by both chambers |
| CICA | #22-18 | Offender Reintegration Program Initiative | Prisons | Extends the authority of the Florida Commission on Offender Review to create an offender reintegration program and grant supervised release to qualifying offenders who meet certain requirements |
| CICA | #22-01 | Prayer in Schools Initiative | Religion and Education | Concerns prayer in schools |
| CICA | #18-16 | Medicaid Expansion Initiative | Healthcare | Requires the state to expand Medicaid coverage to individuals age 18-65 with incomes at or below 138% of the federal poverty level |
| CICA | #24-03 | Right to Clean Water Initiative Initiative | Constitutional rights and Water | Create a "fundamental right to clean and healthy waters," (as defined) in the state constitution; gives legal standing to residents, non-governmental organizations, or government entities to sue in order to enforce or defend such rights |
| CICA | #23-08 | Voting Rights Initiative | Civil rights, Voting policy | Provide that the right to vote shall not be abridged on account of race, ethnicity, religion, language, education, gender, sexual orientation, criminal conviction or sentence, incarceration, or legal financial obligation |
Getting measures on the ballot
Citizens:
Florida allows citizens to initiate constitutional amendments. Sponsors must first register as a political committee with the Florida Division of Elections and submit the proposed initiative petition to the Division of Elections. If the petition format is approved by the Division of Elections, a serial number will be assigned and proponents may begin collecting signatures.
The total number of signatures required for an initiated constitutional amendment to qualify for the ballot is equal to 8% of the votes cast in the preceding presidential election. To qualify an initiative for the 2026 ballot, initiative proponents needed to collect 891,523 valid signatures. Florida also has a signature distribution requirement, which requires that signatures equaling at least 8% of the district-wide vote in the last presidential election be collected from at least half (14) of the state's 28 congressional districts. Signatures remain valid until February 1 of even-numbered years and must be verified by February 1 of the general election year the initiative aims to appear on the ballot.
Proposed measures are reviewed by the state attorney general and state supreme court after proponents collect 25% of the required signatures across the state in each of one-half of the state's congressional districts (222,881 signatures for 2024 ballot measures). After these preliminary signatures have been collected, the secretary of state must submit the proposal to the Florida Attorney General and the Financial Impact Estimating Conference (FIEC). The attorney general is required to petition the Florida Supreme Court for an advisory opinion on the measure's compliance with the single-subject rule, the appropriateness of the title and summary, and whether or not the measure "is facially invalid under the United States Constitution."[1]
Initiative signatures must be verified by February 1, 2026, and, thus, must be submitted to county officials long enough before that date to allow for the verification process. County supervisors of elections have a maximum of 30 days to verify signatures and submit them to the secretary of state, which means to guarantee that local officials verify and submit signatures, they should be submitted by January 1, 2026.
Due to House Bill 1205, signed petition forms may not be verified between July 1, 2025, and September 30, 2025.[2]
Legislature:
During the 2025 and 2026 state legislative sessions, the Florida Legislature may put constitutional amendments on the ballot through a 60% vote in both the Florida State Senate and the Florida House of Representatives.
Historical facts
- See also: List of Florida ballot measures
Florida statewide ballot measures
In Florida, a total of 140 ballot measures appeared on statewide ballots between 1986 and 2024. Voters approved 103 ballot measures, and 37 ballot measures were defeated.
| Florida statewide ballot measures, 1986-2024 | |||||||
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| Total number | Annual average | Annual minimum | Annual maximum | Approved | Defeated | ||
| # | % | # | % | ||||
Ballot initiative certification rates
The following table shows the rate of certification for ballot initiatives in Florida between 2010 and 2024:
Not on the ballot
Initiatives
| Type | Number | Title | Subject | Description | Sponsor | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CICA | #23-02 | Require Voter Approval to Dissolve a County, Municipality, District, Department, or Agency Initiative | County and municipal governance | Requires a two-thirds (66.67%) vote of the state legislature, the governor's signature, and local voter approval to dissolve any county, municipality, district, department, or agency | Disney Defenders | 
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| CICA | #23-03 | Reedy Creek Improvement District Initiative | County and municipal governance | Establishes the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which encompasses and provides services for Disney World, in the state constitution | Disney Defenders |
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| CICA | #23-05 | Dedicate 40% of State Budget to Education Funding Initiative | State and local government budgets, spending and finance and Education | Requires 40% of the state budget to be dedicated to education | Team FL |
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| CICA | #23-09 | Define and Prohibit Political Retaliation Initiative | Administration of government and County and municipal governance | Defines and prohibits political retaliation; prohibits the removal of government officials without criminal conviction, requires two-thirds supermajority voter approval to dissolve a county, municipality, or district; and requires a recall election of any government official found by a court ruling to be engaged in political retaliation | Disney Defenders |
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Referrals
| Type | Number | Title | Subject | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LRCA | HJR 163 | Property Tax Exemption for Surviving Spouse of a Quadriplegic Amendment | Property tax exemptions | Allows the surviving spouse of a quadriplegic to continue receiving a homestead exemption |
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| LRCA | HJR 1257 | Property Tax Assessment Limitations and Additional Exemptions Amendment | Property tax exemptions and Property taxes | Limits property tax assessments to the lower of either 3% of the assessment for the prior year or the percent change in the Consumer Price Index; allows the state legislature to provide additional $25,000 property tax exemptions for (1) certain long-term leased property and (2) owners of property who have not owned homestead property in the last four calendar years |
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| LRCA | HJR 679 | County Commissioner and School Board Member Term Limits Amendment | Local official term limits | Establishes term limits of eight consecutive years for county commissioners for terms commencing after November 3, 2026 and school board members for terms commencing after November 8, 2022 |
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| LRCA | HJR 1325 | Create Commissioner of Government Efficiency Cabinet Position and Repeal Office of Lieutenant Governor Amendment | State executive powers and duties, Executive branch structure | Repeals the office of the lieutenant governor, repeals the government efficiency task force that convenes once every four years, creates the office of commissioner of government efficiency as a cabinet position, provides that the person elected to office of lieutenant governor will serve as the first commissioner of government efficiency, provides for a constitutional amendment to repeal the office of commissioner of government efficiency to be placed on the 2044 ballot |
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See also
- 2026 ballot measures
- List of Florida ballot measures
- History of Initiative & Referendum in Florida
- Laws governing the initiative process in Florida
- Florida State Legislature
- Florida Constitution Revision Commission
External links
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State of Florida Tallahassee (capital) |
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