Georgia Amendment 4, Pilot Court Projects Amendment (1994)

Georgia Amendment 4
Election date November 8, 1994
Topic State judicial selection and State judiciary structure
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, 1994. It was approved.

A "yes" vote supported allowing the general assembly to authorize pilot judicial programs with temporary courts for limited jurisdictions.

A "no" vote opposed allowing the general assembly to authorize pilot judicial programs with temporary courts for limited jurisdictions.

Election results

Georgia Amendment 4
Result		Votes	Percentage
Yes		691,829	56.31%
No		536,811	43.69%

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, upon a two-thirds majority vote of each house, to enact general legislation naming the political subdivisions of the judicial circuit, and existing courts affected as pilot projects of limited duration, nonuniformity of jurisdiction, powers, rules of practice and procedure, selection, qualifications, terms, and classes of courts and granting certain legislative powers to such pilot program courts, as long as such legislation does not deny equal protection of the law to any person?

”

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.

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