Louisiana Budget Estimate to Fund Law Enforcement, Amendment 6 (2002)
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The Louisiana Budget Estimate to Fund Law Enforcement, Amendment 6 was on the ballot in Louisiana on November 5, 2002, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. This measure proposed that the supplemental pay for police and firefighters be fully funded in the governor's budget proposal.[1][2][3]
Election results
| Louisiana Amendment 6 (2002) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 647,113 | 62.86% | ||
| No | 382,260 | 37.14% | ||
Election results via: Louisiana Secretary of State
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
| To require the governor's recommended budget estimate to include amounts sufficient to fully fund the cost of state supplemental pay for full-time local law enforcement and fire protection officers as required by law in effect on July 1, 2001; to require, beginning July 1, 2003, appropriations to fully fund such supplemental pay; to provide for the reduction of such appropriations, under certain circumstances, with the consent of two-thirds of the members of each house of the legislature.[4][5] |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "Official Election Results," November 5, 2002
- ↑ Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana, "Voting on Louisiana Proposed Constitutional Amendments 1978-2015," accessed November 3, 2015
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "2002 Constitutional Amendments," accessed November 9, 2015
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "2002 Constitutional Amendments," accessed November 9, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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