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Responsibility for Paying Costs of Water Pollution Abatement in the Everglades
96-01

Reference:
Article II, Section 7

Summary:
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The Constitution currently provides the authority for the abatement of water pollution. This proposal adds a provision to provide that those in the Everglades Agricultural Area who cause water pollution within the Everglades Protection Area or the Everglades Agricultural Area shall be primarily responsible for paying the costs of the abatement of that pollution.

Sponsor:
Save Our Everglades Committee
Post Office Box 1915
Islamorada, FL 33036-0000
(407) 839-1719
  Contact: Mary L. Barley, Chairperson

Signatures:
Statewide total needed for judicial and financial impact review (signed by 25% of voters required by s. 3, Art. XI of the State Constitution in one-half of the congressional districts): 42,945 
Statewide total needed to make ballot position (signed by 8% of the voters in at least one-half of Florida's congressional districts and in the state as whole as of the last presidential election): 429,428 
Statewide total currently valid: 505,417*
Congressional district totals needed for judicial and economic reviews and ballot placement, with currently valid signatures: View by District by County
*Statewide and congressional district totals for ballot position are NOT OFFICAL until the Secretary of State determines the requisite signatures have been obtained and issues a certificate of ballot position. Once an initiative petition is certified for ballot position, total currently valid may exceed the official totals at time of certification. For status on ballot position, see Status Table below.
 
To find out the signature threshold required in each Congressional District for review and ballot position, the current number of verified signatures in each Congressional District by county, and how many Congressional Districts may have met or exceeded signature thresholds, click the link above titled "View by District by County".

Status: Passed
Approval Date: 03/26/1996 
Undue Burden:  
Made Review: 06/18/1996 
Attorney General: 06/18/1996 
Sent to Supreme Court: 06/27/1996 
Supreme Court Ruling: Constitutional  
SC Ruling Date: 09/24/1996 
Made Ballot: 08/06/1996 
Ballot Number: 5  
Election Date: 11/05/1996 
 Votes For: 3,397,286   
 Votes Against: 1,594,175   




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