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Florida Lieutenant Governor as Executive Department Head Amendment (2014)
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The Florida Lieutenant Governor as Executive Department Head Amendment was not on the November 4, 2014 ballot in Florida as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. The measure would have required the Florida Governor to assign the Florida Lieutenant Governor as the head of any one executive department or agency.[1]
The amendment was introduced into the Florida Legislature by Sen. Jeremy Ring (D-29) as Senate Joint Resolution 756.[2]
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- See also: Amending the Florida Constitution
The amendment was introduced into the legislature on February 6, 2014. The Florida Legislature can put a proposed amendment on the ballot upon a sixty percent majority vote in both legislative chambers via a joint resolution. The amendment died in the Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability Committee.[3]
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- ↑ Florida Senate, "SJR 756," accessed February 26, 2014
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedtext - ↑ Florida Senate, "SJR 756: Lieutenant Governor/Agency or Department Head," accessed May 5, 2014
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