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Our Position: oppose
Bill Number: SB26
Sponsor: Senator Jim King
Legislative Session: 2006

5/14/06:

These bills died: 5/5/05: SB720/SB1244/HB773: Anti-Petition Gathering bills; SB26: Supreme Court Subject Filter Citizen Initiatives:  SB1918/HB7165: Purifying (NOT) the Constitution: SB1436/HB7037 Fiscal impact: (Citizen Initiatives and petition gathering survived). We can celebrate this victory as well. While we were fighting on a daily basis, it all came down to the internal fighting between leadership, and against the legislators themselves sponsoring so many constitutional amendments; many of the legislators sounded off on how hypocritical this was. Our hard line lobbying efforts and our Save the Voters Voice coalition work around the state was wonderful. Kudo’s to ACORN, FPIRG, Clean Water Action, Sierra, AFL-CIO, Florida LCV, Florida Consumer Action Network,  League of Women Voters of Florida, Common Cause, Panhandle Citizens Coalition and others. We did an excellent job working together, taking turns, sharing responsibilities and being there for each other.

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Status

This bill has no House Companion and may end up as an amendment on another Anti-Citizen Inititative Amendment Bill.

10/26/05 SENATE Referred to Ethics and Elections; Judiciary; Rules and
                  Calendar
  02/07/06 SENATE On Committee agenda-- Ethics and Elections, 02/14/06, 9:30
                  am, 412-K
02/14/06 SENATE Favorable by Ethics and Elections; YEAS 5 NAYS 0; Now in
                  Judiciary

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