CopyCited 48 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 18871, 1996 WL 400009
...fication of
ballot position will be issued to the sponsor. Fla.Admin.Code Ann.
r. 1S-2.0091(4).
The secretary of state must then submit the sponsor's
initiative petition to the attorney general, Fla.Stat.Ann. § 15.21
(West 1988), who in turn must petition the Florida Supreme Court
for an advisory opinion regarding the compliance of the text of the
proposed amendment with the single subject requirement of Art....
CopyCited 31 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to Ala. Code § 15-21-3. The burden is on the acquittee in the habeas
CopyCited 24 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 2002 WL 992066
...hat there was no constitutional cap on taxes when there actually were such limitations for governmental entities in article VII, section 9, and inheritance and income taxes in article VII, section 5(b)). HARDING and LEWIS, JJ., concur. NOTES [1] See § 15.21, Fla....
CopyCited 13 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida
...e petition of the attorney general, file with *1223 the custodian of records an order making such apportionment. The Independent Commission Initiative petition was filed with the Florida Secretary of State as required by Florida law. [5] Pursuant to section 15.21, Florida Statutes (2005), the Secretary of State submitted the amendment to the Florida Attorney General and certified that the petition had obtained the signatures of voters as required by article XI, section 3 of the Florida Constitution....
...[4] The Secretary of State determined that a petition to establish additional standards for legislative and congressional districts exceeded the statutory word limitation set forth in section
101.161. Thus, that petition was never submitted to the Attorney General as specified in section
15.21, Florida Statutes (2005)....
CopyCited 10 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 2004 WL 1574226
...-five thousand dollars shall be granted to any person who has the legal or equitable title to real estate and maintains thereon the permanent residence of the owner. The Secretary of State submitted the amendment to the Attorney General, pursuant to section 15.21(2), Florida Statutes (2003)....
CopyCited 8 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 34 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 102, 2009 Fla. LEXIS 145, 2009 WL 217983
...nless a greater percentage is approved by voters. After the petition was filed with the Secretary of State, the Secretary advised the Attorney General that the initiative petition met the registration, submission, and signature criteria set forth in section 15.21, Florida Statutes (2007)....
CopyCited 2 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 2002 WL 1025974
...rida. M. Stephen Turner and Kelly A. O'Keefe of Broad & Cassel, Tallahassee, FL, for Floridians for Education Reform. PER CURIAM. The Attorney General has requested that this Court review a proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution. Pursuant to section 15.21, Florida Statutes (2001), the Secretary of State submitted to the Attorney General an initiative petition which sought to amend the Florida Constitution to create a system of governance for the state university system....
CopyCited 1 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 25 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 546, 2000 Fla. LEXIS 1460
...ights Initiative, the sponsor of the proposed state constitutional amendments, filed initiative petitions with the Secretary of State. On October 26, 1999, the Secretary of State submitted the initiative petitions to the Attorney General pursuant to section 15.21, Florida Statutes (1999)....
...state, and of the state as a whole, equal to eight percent of the votes cast in each of such districts, respectively and in the state as a whole in the last preceding election in which presidential electors were chosen. Art. XI, § 3, Fla. Const. . Section 15.21, Florida Statutes, requires the Secretary of State to submit the initiative petition to the Attorney General if the sponsor has registered as a political action committee, submitted the proposed amendment to the Secretary of State, and obtained a letter from the Division of Elections stating that the sponsor has received verification that it has collected the requisite number of signatures. See § 15.21, Fla.Stat....
CopyPublished | Supreme Court of Florida | 27 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 804, 2002 Fla. LEXIS 1949, 2002 WL 31207223
...ficient time to make a considered decision on the merits of an issue of statewide importance such as was presented in this case. ANSTEAD, C.J., and CANTERO, J., concur. . See art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const . See art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const. . See § 15.21, Fla....
CopyPublished | Supreme Court of Florida | 31 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 173, 2006 Fla. LEXIS 484
...the petition of the attorney general, file with *1223 the custodian of records an order making such apportionment. The Independent Commission Initiative petition was filed with the Florida Secretary of State as required by Florida law. 5 Pursuant to section 15.21, Florida Statutes (2005), the Secretary of State submitted the amendment to the Florida Attorney General and certified that the petition had obtained the signatures of voters as required by article XI, section 3 of the Florida Constitution....
...The Secretary of State determined that a petition to establish additional standards for legislative and congressional districts exceeded the statutory word limitation set forth in section
101.161. Thus, that petition was never submitted to the Attorney General as specified in section
15.21, Florida Statutes (2005)....
CopyPublished | Supreme Court of Florida | 30 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 164, 2005 Fla. LEXIS 491, 2005 WL 610430
...a comprehensive land use plan. 4. “Governing body” means the board of county commissioners of a county, the commission or council of a municipality, or the chief elected governing body of a county or municipality, however designated. Pursuant to section 15.21, Florida Statutes (2004), the Florida Secretary of State submitted the amendment to the Florida Attorney General....
CopyPublished | Supreme Court of Florida | 20 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 262, 1995 Fla. LEXIS 952, 1995 WL 337976
...mber 1994 election. The response also indicated that, although FLAG had not obtained enough signatures for placement on the ballot, it had obtained a sufficient number of signatures to entitle it to an advisory opinion from this Court under sections
15.21 and
16.061, Florida Statutes (1993), 2 and arti- *1261 ele IV, section 10, Florida Constitution....
...essional districts of the state, and of the state as a whole, equal to eight percent of the votes cast in each of such districts respectively and in the state as a whole in the last preceding election in which presidential electors were chosen.” . Section 15.21, Florida Statutes (1993), provides: *1261 The Secretary of State shall immediately submit an initiative petition to the Attorney General if the sponsor has: (1) Registered as a political committee pursuant to s....
CopyPublished | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 2004 WL 1627022
R. at 124 (Stipulation at § 15) 21 In its August 2001 "Child
CopyPublished | Supreme Court of Florida | 29 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 393, 2004 Fla. LEXIS 1006, 2004 WL 1574241
...d operation of a high speed ground transportation system by the state and/or by a private entity. The full text of the proposed amendment states as follows: Article X, Section 19, Florida Constitution, is hereby repealed in its entirety. Pursuant to section 15.21, Florida Statutes (2003), on June 2, 2004, the Florida Secretary of State submitted the present proposed amendment to the Florida Attorney General....
CopyPublished | Supreme Court of Florida | 29 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 387, 2004 Fla. LEXIS 1004, 2004 WL 1574232
...ersons or circumstances, shall not be affected by such a holding and shall continue in full force and effect. To this end, the parts of this amendment are severable. The Secretary of State submitted the amendment to the Attorney General, pursuant to section 15.21(2), Florida Statutes (2003)....
CopyPublished | Supreme Court of Florida | 29 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 410, 2004 Fla. LEXIS 1005, 2004 WL 1574248
...Each law shall contain the single subject of a single exemption or exclusion and be approved by three-fifths vote of each legislative house. Exemptions and exclusions not reenacted or adopted by the Legislature are eliminated. The Florida Secretary of State submitted the amendment to the Florida Attorney General, pursuant to section 15.21, Florida Statutes (2003)....
CopyPublished | Supreme Court of Florida | 32 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 482, 2007 Fla. LEXIS 1225, 2007 WL 2002593
article XI, section 3, general law, in particular section
15.21(2), Florida Statutes (2006), defines an "initiative
CopyPublished | Supreme Court of Florida
...The people of Florida have the power to propose amendments to the state
constitution by initiative under article XI, section 3 of the Florida Constitution.
Once an initiative petition is circulated and meets certain technical requirements,
see § 15.21, Fla....
...mpact
statement to the public, the Legislature created a public entity, the FIEC, that is
solely responsible for that task and has not required the person or group sponsoring
an initiative petition to include that statement in the petition. See §§
15.21(2),
100.371(13),
101.161(2), Fla....
...The
sponsor’s responsibility in preparing an initiative petition is to establish the text of
the proposed amendment and create a ballot summary and ballot title, which the
sponsor submits to the Secretary of State for approval before circulating for
signatures. §§
15.21(2),
100.371(2),
101.161(2)....
CopyPublished | Supreme Court of Florida | 27 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 71, 2002 Fla. LEXIS 29, 2002 WL 58560
PER CURIAM. Pursuant to section 15.21, Florida Statutes (2001), the Secretary of State submitted to the Attorney General an initiative petition which sought to amend the Florida Constitution to limit the cruel and'inhumane confinement of pigs during pregnancy....
