CRC - 2017 COMMISSIONER AMENDMENT Proposal No. P 97 Ì611438/Î611438 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House . . . Floor: 3/F . 03/20/2018 09:33 AM . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Commissioner Carlton moved the following: 1 CRC Amendment (with title amendment) 2 3 After line 53 4 insert: 5 A new section is added to Article XII to the State 6 Constitution to read: 7 ARTICLE XII 8 SCHEDULE 9 Threshold for voter approval of constitutional amendments 10 or revisions.—The amendment to Article XI, section 5, which 11 requires a proposed amendment or revision to this constitution 12 be approved by not fewer than sixty percent of voters voting in 13 the election in which such proposed amendment or revision is 14 considered, shall take effect on the date that the Division of 15 Elections certifies that the amendment has received a vote for 16 approval by not fewer than sixty percent of voters voting in the 17 2018 general election. 18 19 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 20 And the title is amended as follows: 21 Delete lines 2 - 7 22 and insert: 23 Section 5 of Article XI and to create a new section in 24 Article XII of the State Constitution to require that 25 any proposed amendment or revision of the State 26 Constitution be approved by a vote of at least two 27 thirds of the voters voting on the measure and to 28 specify an effective date.