Florida Amendment 2, Economic Impact Statements for Initiatives Amendment (2002)

Florida Amendment 2
Election date November 5, 2002
Topic Initiative and referendum process
Status Approved
Type Legislatively referred constitutional amendment	Origin State legislature

Florida Amendment 2 was on the ballot as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in Florida on November 5, 2002. It was approved.

A “yes” vote supported requiring that the Legislature create a law requiring economic impact statements for constitutional amendments proposed by initiatives.

A “no” vote opposed requiring that the Legislature create a law requiring economic impact statements for constitutional amendments proposed by initiatives.

Election results

Florida Amendment 2
Result		Votes	Percentage
Yes		3,583,379	78.01%
No		1,010,254	21.99%

Results are officially certified.

Source

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title for Amendment 2 was as follows:

“

Requires the Legislature to provide by general law for the provision of an economic impact statement to the public prior to the public voting on an amendment of the Florida Constitution proposed by initiative.

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Full Text

The full text of this measure is available here.

Constitutional changes

The text of the amendment read:

SECTION 5. Amendment or revision election.-- (a) A proposed amendment to or revision of this constitution, or any part of it, shall be submitted to the electors at the next general election held more than ninety days after the joint resolution, initiative petition or report of revision commission, constitutional convention or taxation and budget reform commission proposing it is filed with the custodian of state records, unless, pursuant to law enacted by the affirmative vote of three-fourths of the membership of each house of the legislature and limited to a single amendment or revision, it is submitted at an earlier special election held more than ninety days after such filing. (b) The legislature shall provide by general law, prior to the holding of an election pursuant to this section, for the provision of a statement to the public regarding the probable financial impact of any amendment proposed by initiative pursuant to Section 3. (c) (b) Once in the tenth week, and once in the sixth week immediately preceding the week in which the election is held, the proposed amendment or revision, with notice of the date of election at which it will be submitted to the electors, shall be published in one newspaper of general circulation in each county in which a newspaper is published. (d) (c) If the proposed amendment or revision is approved by vote of the electors, it shall be effective as an amendment to or revision of the constitution of the state on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January following the election, or on such other date as may be specified in the amendment or revision.

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

2002 Measures

• 2002 Measures
• Initiative and referendum process on the ballot
• 2002 legislative sessions

Florida

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• Florida ballot measure laws

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External links

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