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North Carolina Supermajority Vote to Levy Taxes Amendment (2014)
| Not on Ballot |
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| This measure was not put on an election ballot |
The North Carolina Supermajority Vote to Levy Taxes Amendment was not on the November 4, 2014 ballot in North Carolina as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. The measure would have required a three-fifths vote in the state legislature in order to levy taxes.[1]
The proposed amendment was sponsored in the North Carolina Legislature as House Bill 822.[2]
Support
Supporters
- Rep. John Blust (R-62)[2]
- Rep. Bert Jones (R-65)
- Rep. Jonathan Jordan (R-93)
- Rep. Mark Brody (R-55)
- Rep. Brian Brown (R-9)
- Rep. George Cleveland (R-14)
- Rep. John Faircloth (R-61)
- Rep. Timothy Moffitt (R-116)
- Rep. Thomas Murry (R-41)
- Rep. Dennis Riddell (R-64)
- Rep. Michael Speciale (R-3)
- Rep. Michael Stone (R-51)
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the North Carolina Constitution
Section 4 of Article XIII of the North Carolina Constitution requires that a legislatively referred amendment go on the ballot after it is approved by a 60 percent vote in each chamber of the North Carolina State Legislature.
See also
Footnotes
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