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    1                         A proposal to amend                       
    2         Section 4 of Article IX and create a new section in
    3         Article XII of the State Constitution to establish a
    4         limitation on the period for which a person may be
    5         elected as a member of a district school board.
    6          
    7  Be It Proposed by the Constitution Revision Commission of
    8  Florida:
    9  
   10         Section 4 of Article IX of the State Constitution is
   11  amended to read:
   12                             ARTICLE IX                            
   13                              EDUCATION                            
   14         SECTION 4. School districts; school boards.—
   15         (a) Each county shall constitute a school district;
   16  provided, two or more contiguous counties, upon vote of the
   17  electors of each county pursuant to law, may be combined into
   18  one school district. In each school district there shall be a
   19  school board composed of five or more members chosen by vote of
   20  the electors in a nonpartisan election for appropriately
   21  staggered terms of four years, as provided by law.
   22         (b) A person may not appear on the ballot for re-election
   23  to the office of school board if, by the end of the current term
   24  of office, the person would have served, or but for resignation
   25  would have served, in that office for eight consecutive years.
   26         (c)(b) The school board shall operate, control and
   27  supervise all free public schools within the school district and
   28  determine the rate of school district taxes within the limits
   29  prescribed herein. Two or more school districts may operate and
   30  finance joint educational programs.
   31  
   32         A new section is added to Article XII of the State
   33  Constitution to read:
   34                             ARTICLE XII                           
   35                              SCHEDULE                             
   36         Limitation on terms of office for members of a district
   37  school board.-This section and the amendment to Section 4 of
   38  Article IX imposing term limits for the terms of office for
   39  members of a district school board shall take effect on the date
   40  it is approved by the electorate, but no service in a term of
   41  office which commenced prior to November 6, 2018, will be
   42  counted against the limitation imposed by this amendment.