CRC - 2017 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Proposal No. P 74 Ì880484=Î880484 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House . . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Committee on Ethics and Elections (Kruppenbacher) recommended the following: 1 CRC Amendment (with title amendment) 2 3 Delete everything after the proposal clause 4 and insert: 5 Section 4 of Article VI of the State Constitution is 6 amended to read: 7 ARTICLE VI 8 SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS 9 SECTION 4. Disqualifications.— 10 (a) No person convicted of a felony, or adjudicated in this 11 or any other state to be mentally incompetent, shall be 12 qualified to vote or hold office until restoration of civil 13 rights or removal of disability. 14 (b) There shall be a Commission on Restoration of Voting 15 Rights composed of seven members, with the power to restore 16 voting rights to persons disqualified pursuant to this section. 17 The qualifications, method of selection and terms, not to exceed 18 six years, of the commission shall be prescribed by law. 19 (c) No person may appear on the ballot for re-election to 20 any of the following offices: 21 (1) Florida representative, 22 (2) Florida senator, 23 (3) Florida Lieutenant governor, 24 (4) any office of the Florida cabinet, 25 (5) U.S. Representative from Florida, or 26 (6) U.S. Senator from Florida 27 28 if, by the end of the current term of office, the person 29 will have served (or, but for resignation, would have served) in 30 that office for eight consecutive 31 32 33 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 34 And the title is amended as follows: 35 Delete everything before the enacting clause 36 and insert: 37 A proposal to amend 38 Section 4 of Article VI of the State Constitution to 39 create a Commission on Restoration of Voting Rights.