CRC - 2017 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Proposal No. P 61 Ì451392+Î451392 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House Comm: FAV . 01/26/2018 . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Committee on Local Government (Timmann) recommended the following: 1 CRC Amendment (with title amendment) 2 3 Delete everything after the enacting clause 4 and insert: 5 Section 2 of Article VIII of the State Constitution is 6 amended to read: 7 ARTICLE VIII 8 LOCAL GOVERNMENT 9 SECTION 2. Municipalities.— 10 (a) ESTABLISHMENT. Municipalities may be established or 11 abolished and their charters amended pursuant to general or 12 special law. When any municipality is abolished, provision shall 13 be made for the protection of its creditors. 14 (b) POWERS. Municipalities shall have governmental, 15 corporate and proprietary powers to enable them to conduct 16 municipal government, perform municipal functions and render 17 municipal services, and may exercise any power for municipal 18 purposes except as otherwise provided by law. A law enacted by 19 the legislature which preempts power granted to a municipality 20 under this subsection must: 21 (1) State with specificity the statewide necessity 22 justifying the preemption; 23 (2) Be no broader than necessary to accomplish the 24 statewide necessity expressed; 25 (3) Contain only one preemption of a power granted herein; 26 and 27 (4) Relate to one subject. 28 29 Each municipal legislative body shall be elective. 30 (c) ANNEXATION. Municipal annexation of unincorporated 31 territory, merger of municipalities, and exercise of extra 32 territorial powers by municipalities shall be as provided by 33 general or special law. 34 35 36 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 37 And the title is amended as follows: 38 Delete everything before the enacting clause 39 and insert: 40 A proposal to amend 41 Section 2 of Article VIII of the State Constitution to 42 provide that any law enacted by the Legislature that 43 restricts the home rule powers granted to 44 municipalities must meet certain criteria.