CRC - 2017                                   COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Proposal No. P 91
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: FAV            .                                
                  12/15/2017           .                                
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       The Committee on General Provisions (Thurlow-Lippisch)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         CRC Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the proposal clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 7 of Article II of the State Constitution is
    6  amended to read:
    7                             ARTICLE II                            
    8                         GENERAL PROVISIONS                        
    9         SECTION 7. Natural resources and scenic beauty.—
   10         (a) It shall be the policy of the state to conserve and
   11  protect its natural resources and scenic beauty. Adequate
   12  provision shall be made by law for the abatement of air and
   13  water pollution and of excessive and unnecessary noise and for
   14  the conservation and protection of natural resources.
   15         (b) Those in the Everglades Agricultural Area who cause
   16  water pollution within the Everglades Protection Area or the
   17  Everglades Agricultural Area shall be primarily responsible for
   18  paying the costs of the abatement of that pollution. For the
   19  purposes of this subsection, the terms “Everglades Protection
   20  Area” and “Everglades Agricultural Area” shall have the meanings
   21  as defined in statutes in effect on January 1, 1996.
   22         (c) To protect the people of Florida and their environment,
   23  drilling for exploration or extraction of oil or natural gas is
   24  prohibited on lands beneath all state waters which have not been
   25  alienated and that lie between the mean high water line and the
   26  outermost boundaries of the state’s territorial seas. This
   27  prohibition does not apply to the transportation of oil and gas
   28  products produced outside of such waters. This section is self
   29  executing.
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   32  And the title is amended as follows:
   33         Delete everything before the proposal clause
   34  and insert:
   35                         A proposal to amend                       
   36         Section 7 of Article X of the State Constitution to 
   37         prohibit the drilling for exploration and extraction of oil
   38  and natural gas in specified coastal waters.
   39