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Louisiana Procedure for Legislative Appropriations, Amendment 3 (2002)
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The Louisiana Procedure for Legislative Appropriations, Amendment 3 was on the ballot in Louisiana on November 5, 2002, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. This measure proposed to give the legislature and governor the ability to make certain appropriations modifications in order to deal with budget deficits.[1][2][3]
Election results
| Louisiana Amendment 3 (2002) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 581,086 | 57.67% | ||
| No | 426,539 | 42.33% | ||
Election results via: Louisiana Secretary of State
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
| To authorize the legislature to establish procedures determining projected deficits and budget adjustments related to deficit avoidance; to provide that such procedures for amendment may be made by specific legislation enacted by a favorable two-thirds vote of the legislature; to authorize adjustments of up to five percent of constitutionally protected and mandated allocations and appropriations if aggregate reductions of seven-tenths of one percent of allocations and appropriations from the state general fund have been made; to limit such reductions of the Minimum Foundation Program to one percent; to authorize the transfer of monies from one fund to another as a result of such budget adjustments, but not to exceed the amount of the deficit; to authorize, for the purposes of the budget estimate and enactment of the budget for the next fiscal year, that if the official revenue forecast for the next fiscal year is at least one percent less than the forecast for the current fiscal year, an amount not to exceed five percent of the monies appropriated from any fund established by law or constitution shall be available for appropriation in the next fiscal year for a purpose other than as specified by law or constitution; to limit amounts available for use for other purposes with respect to the Minimum Foundation Program to one percent; to exempt from such reductions any revenues dedicated or pledged as security for bonds, the severance tax and royalty allocations to parishes, retirement contributions, the Louisiana Education Quality Trust Fund, the Millennium Trust except for appropriations from the trust, and monies not required to be deposited in the state treasury; and to authorize the legislature to provide for the implementation of these provisions.[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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