Florida Amendment 9, Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Elderly Affairs Amendment (1988)

Florida Amendment 9
Election date November 8, 1988
Topic Administrative organization and Veterans policy
Status Approved
Type Legislatively referred constitutional amendment	Origin State legislature

Florida Amendment 9 was on the ballot as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in Florida on November 8, 1988. It was approved.

A “yes” vote supported authorizing creating a Department of Veterans Affairs and a Department of Elderly Affairs.

A “no” vote opposed authorizing creating a Department of Veterans Affairs and a Department of Elderly Affairs.

Election results

Florida Amendment 9
Result		Votes	Percentage
Yes		2,723,848	68.96%
No		1,225,915	31.04%

Results are officially certified.

Source

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title for Amendment 9 was as follows:

“

Proposes an amendment to the State Constitution to authorize the creation of a Department of Veterans Affairs and a Department of Elderly Affairs.

”

Full Text

The full text of this measure is available here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the Florida Constitution

A 60% vote was required during one legislative session for the Florida State Legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. That amounted to a minimum of 51 votes in the Florida House of Representatives and 18 votes in the Florida State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments did not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot. Amendments on the ballot required a simple majority vote in this year.

See also

1988 Measures

• 1988 Measures
• Veterans policy on the ballot
• Administrative organization on the ballot
• 1988 legislative sessions

Florida

• Florida ballot measures
• Florida ballot measure laws

News and analysis

• Ballot measure lawsuits
• Ballot measure readability
• Ballot measure polls

External links

• Florida Division of Elections, "Initiatives / Amendments / Revisions Database"