North Carolina Healthcare Facilities Bonds Amendment (March 1976)
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| Topic Bond issues and Healthcare facility funding |
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| Type Legislatively referred constitutional amendment |
Origin |
North Carolina Healthcare Facilities Bonds Amendment was on the ballot as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in North Carolina on March 23, 1976. It was approved.
A "yes" vote supported allowing the general assembly to authorize state and local governments to issue revenue bonds to finance or refinance healthcare facilities. |
A "no" vote opposed allowing the general assembly to authorize state and local governments to issue revenue bonds to finance or refinance healthcare facilities. |
Election results
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382,093 | 55.10% | ||
| No | 311,300 | 44.90% | ||
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for Healthcare Facilities Bonds Amendment was as follows:
| “ | [ ] FOR constitutional amendment to permit the General Assembly to enact general laws to authorize the State, counties, cities or towns, and other State and local governmental entities to issue revenue bonds to finance or refinance for any such governmental entity or any nonprofit private corporation, regardless of any church or religious relationship, the cost of acquiring, constructing and financing health care facility projects, such bonds to be payable from the revenues, gross or net, of any such projects and any other health care facilities of any such governmental entity or nonprofit private corporation pledged therefor [ ] AGAINST constitutional amendment to permit the General Assembly to enact general laws to authorize the State, counties, cities or towns, and other State and local governmental entities to issue revenue bonds to finance or refinance for any such governmental entity or any nonprofit private corporation, regardless of any church or religious relationship, the cost of acquiring, constructing and financing health care facility projects, such bonds to be payable from the revenues, gross or net, of any such projects and any other health care facilities of any such governmental entity or nonprofit private corporation pledged therefor | ” |
Full Text
The full text of this measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
The North Carolina State Legislature can refer statewide ballot measures, in the form of constitutional amendments and bond issues, to the ballot for statewide elections.
North Carolina requires a 60% vote in each legislative chamber during a single legislative session to refer a constitutional amendment to the ballot. That amounts to a minimum of 72 votes in the North Carolina House of Representatives and 30 votes in the North Carolina Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments do not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.
Statutes, including bond issues, require a simple majority vote in each legislative chamber during one legislative session and the governor's signature to appear on the ballot.
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Footnotes
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