Florida Senate - 2020                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SJR 1216
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/04/2020           .                                
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       The Committee on Ethics and Elections (Gruters) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 34 - 53
    4  and insert:
    5  resignation would have served, in that office for eight
    6  consecutive years.
    7                             ARTICLE XII                           
    8                              SCHEDULE                             
    9         Limitation on terms of office for members of a district
   10  school board.—This section and the amendment to Section 4 of
   11  Article IX imposing limits on the terms of office for members of
   12  a district school board shall take effect on the date they are
   13  approved by the electorate, but no service in a term of office
   14  that commenced before November 3, 2020, will be counted toward
   15  the limitation imposed by this amendment.
   16         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following statement be
   17  placed on the ballot:
   18                      CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT                     
   19                        ARTICLE IX, SECTION 4                      
   20                             ARTICLE XII                           
   21  LIMITATION ON TERMS OF OFFICE FOR MEMBERS OF A DISTRICT SCHOOL
   22  BOARD.—Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution to limit
   23  terms for school board members by prohibiting incumbent members
   24  who have held the office for the preceding eight years