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Florida Elected Officials Personal Representation for Compensation Amendment (2018)
| Florida Elected Officials Personal Representation for Compensation Amendment | |
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| Election date November 6, 2018 | |
| Topic Government accountability | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin State legislature |
The Florida Elected Officials Personal Representation for Compensation Amendment was not on the ballot in Florida as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 6, 2018.
The measure would have prohibited former statewide elected officials and state legislators from personally representing another person or entity before any state body or agency, except judicial tribunals, for six years after leaving office.[1]
As of 2017, former statewide elected officials and state legislators were prohibited from personally representing another person or entity before a government body or agency that they were an officer or member of for two years after leaving office.
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title would have been as follows:[1]
| “ | STATE OFFICERS POST-SERVICE PERSONAL REPRESENTATION PROHIBITIONS.—Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution prohibiting legislators and statewide elected officers from personally representing another person or entity for compensation before any state government body or state agency except judicial tribunals for six years following vacation of office; providing that the prohibition applies to individuals who were members of the legislature or who were statewide elected officers at any time after November 8, 2016.[2] |
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Constitutional changes
- See also: Article II, Florida Constitution
The measure would have amended Section 8(e) of Article II and added a Section 37 to Article XII of the Florida Constitution. The following underlined text would have been added, and struck-through text would have been deleted:[1]
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Ethics in Government
A public office is a public trust. The people shall have the right to secure and sustain that trust against abuse. To assure this right:
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(e) A No member of the legislature or a statewide elected officer may not shall personally represent another person or entity for compensation before any state the government body or state agency other than judicial tribunals of which the individual was an officer or member for a period of six two years following vacation of office. A No member of the legislature may not shall personally represent another person or entity for compensation during term of office before any state agency other than judicial tribunals. Similar restrictions on other public officers and employees may be established by law.
Article XII, Section 37
Schedule
Section 37. State officers post-service personal representation prohibitions.—The amendment to Section 8 of Article II prohibiting legislators and statewide elected officers from providing personal representation for compensation before any state government body or state agency for six years following vacation of office is applicable only to those individuals who were members of the legislature or who were statewide elected officers at any time after November 8, 2016.[2]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the Florida Constitution
In Florida, a constitutional amendment must be passed by a 60 percent vote in each house of the state legislature during one legislative session.
On January 31, 2017, the amendment was filed in the state legislature as House Joint Resolution 7001. The House of Representatives approved the measure, 108 to 4 with eight members not voting, on March 30, 2017. The bill was indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration in the Senate on May 5, 2017.[3]
House vote
March 30, 2017[3]
| Florida HJR 7001 House Vote | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 108 | 96.43% | ||
| No | 4 | 3.57% | ||
See also
- 2018 ballot measures
- Florida 2018 ballot measures
- Florida Legislature
- Government accountability on the ballot
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Florida Legislature, "House Joint Resolution 7001," accessed March 31, 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "quotedisclaimer" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ 3.0 3.1 Florida Legislature, "HJR 23 Overview," accessed March 23, 2017
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