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Florida Election and Duties of Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser Amendment (2018)

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Florida Election and Duties of Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser Amendment
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Election date
November 6, 2018
Topic
Elections and campaigns and County and municipal governance
Status
Not on the ballot
Type
Constitutional amendment		Origin
State legislature

The Florida Election and Duties of Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser Amendment was not on the ballot in Florida as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 6, 2018.

The measure would have removed the power of the Miami-Dade County charter to determine how the county property appraiser is selected and whether the office of county property appraiser exists. The measure would have required Miami-Dade County to have and elect a county property appraiser. Furthermore, the measure would have prohibited any county charter from abolishing the office of property appraiser or establishing a selection process other than a vote of county electors.[1]

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title would have been as follows:[1]

“
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
ARTICLE VIII, SECTION 1

SELECTION AND DUTIES OF PROPERTY APPRAISERS.—Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution to remove authority for the Miami-Dade County charter to provide for choosing a property appraiser in a manner other than by election or to alter the duties of the property appraiser or abolish the office of the property appraiser. The amendment takes effect January 8, 2019, if approved.[2]

”

Constitutional changes

See also: Article VIII, Florida Constitution

The measure would have amended Section 1(d) of Article VIII of the Florida Constitution. The following underlined text would have been added:[1]

(d) COUNTY OFFICERS. There shall be elected by the electors of each county, for terms of four years, a sheriff, a tax collector, a property appraiser, a supervisor of elections, and a clerk of the circuit court; except, when provided by county charter or special law approved by vote of the electors of the county, any county officer may be chosen in another manner therein specified, or any county office may be abolished when all the duties of the office prescribed by general law are transferred to another office, except that a county charter adopted under section 11 of article VIII of the 1885 Constitution, as amended, and incorporated by reference in subsection (e) of section 6 of this article, may not change the manner of selecting the property appraiser or abolish the office of property appraiser and transfer the duties of that office to another office. When not otherwise provided by county charter or special law approved by vote of the electors, the clerk of the circuit court shall be ex officio clerk of the board of county commissioners, auditor, recorder, and custodian of all county funds. Notwithstanding section 11 of article VIII of the 1885 Constitution, as amended, and incorporated by reference in subsection (e) of section 6 of this article, a county charter may not abolish the office, transfer the duties to another office, change the length of term, or establish any manner of selection other than by vote of the county electors, of the property appraiser other than as provided in this subsection.[2]

Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the Florida Constitution

In Florida, a constitutional amendment must be passed by a 60 percent vote in each house of the state legislature during one legislative session.

On January 9, 2017, the amendment was filed in the state legislature as House Joint Resolution 187. The House of Representatives approved the measure, 93 to 20 with seven members not voting, on April 28, 2017. The bill did not make it out of the Senate Community Affairs Committee before the legislature adjourned the 2017 session on May 8, 2017.[3]

House vote

April 28, 2017[3]

Florida HJR 187 House Vote
ResultVotesPercentage
Approveda Yes 93 82.30%
No2017.70%

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Florida Legislature, "House Joint Resolution 187," accessed May 1, 2017
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "quotedisclaimer" defined multiple times with different content
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Florida Legislature, "HJR 187 Overview," accessed May 1, 2017
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