When Florida voters head to the polls on Tuesday, November 4, not only will they decide who the next president of the U.S. will be or who will represent them in the Florida legislature, they will be determining the fate of nine (9) different proposed amendments to the Florida Constitution.  Florida’s Constitution has been amended 114 times since voters approved a new one in 1968.  In contrast, the U.S. Constitution has only been amended 27 times since its adoption by our founding fathers in 1787 – the first ten were adopted at its inception in the form of the Bill of Rights.

In 2006, Florida voters approved Amendment 3, which requires that any future amendments to the Constitution be approved by 60 percent.  For 2008, seven of the nine proposed amendments were put on the ballot by the powerful Taxation and Budget Reform Commission (TBRC), which began meeting across the state in 2007 and officially concluded its business in late April of 2008.  These amendments range across a wide-spectrum of issues touching education, the environment, and property taxes.

The following is a quick and easy to read chart that shows the nine active proposed amendments for the 2008 General Election.