Georgia Amendment 4, Federal Educational Funding Amendment (1966)

Georgia Amendment 4
Election date November 8, 1966
Topic Higher education funding and Public education funding
Status Approved
Type Legislatively referred constitutional amendment	Origin State legislature

Georgia Amendment 4 was on the ballot as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in Georgia on November 8, 1966. It was approved.

A "yes" vote supported authorizing the General Assembly to appropriate funds for obtaining funds from the federal government for education scholarships and loans.

A "no" vote opposed authorizing the General Assembly to appropriate funds for obtaining funds from the federal government for education scholarships and loans.

Election results

Georgia Amendment 4
Result		Votes	Percentage
Yes		294,201	68.65%
No		134,321	31.35%

Results are officially certified.

Source

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title for Amendment 4 was as follows:

“

Shall the Constitution be amended so as to authorize the General Assembly to appropriate funds to any State department or other State agency for the purpose of being used to obtain funds from the Federal Government for educational scholarships, educational loans and other educational purposes and to authorize such State departments and other State agencies to use the funds so appropriated and the funds received from the Federal Government for the purposes authorized and directed by the Federal Government in making such funds available?

”

Full Text

The full text of this measure is available here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the Georgia Constitution

A two-thirds (66.67%) vote is required during one legislative session for the Georgia State Legislature to place an amendment on the ballot. That amounts to a minimum of 120 votes in the Georgia House of Representatives and 38 votes in the Georgia State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments do not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.

See also

1966 Measures

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• Public education funding on the ballot
• State and local government budgets on the ballot
• spending on the ballot
• and finance on the ballot
• 1966 legislative sessions

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