- Article X, Section 27
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- To protect people, especially youth, from addiction, disease, and other health hazards of using tobacco, the Legislature shall use some Tobacco Settlement money annually for a comprehensive statewide tobacco education and prevention program using Centers for Disease Control best practices. Specifies some program components, emphasizing youth, requiring one-third of total annual funding for advertising. Annual funding is 15% of 2005 Tobacco Settlement payments to Florida, adjusted annually for inflation. Provides definitions. Effective immediately.
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Financial Impact
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Financial Information
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Additional Information
| 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):
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61,113
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| 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): |
611,009
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| Statewide total currently valid: |
720,218*
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| Congressional district totals needed for judicial and economic reviews and ballot placement, with currently valid signatures: |
View by District by County
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- *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.
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- 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".
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| Approval Date: |
07/20/2005 |
| Undue Burden: |
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| Made Review: |
10/04/2005 |
| Attorney General: |
10/11/2005 |
| Sent to Supreme Court: |
10/20/2005 |
| Supreme Court Ruling: |
Constitutional
: Initiative petition and proposed title and summary meet the legal requirements of article XI, section 3 of the Florida Constitution, and section 101.161(1), F.S. (2005), and that the financial impact statement is in accordance with section 101.371(6), F.S. (2005).
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| SC Ruling Date: |
03/16/2006 |
| Made Ballot: |
01/24/2006 |
| Ballot Number: |
4 |
| Election
Date: | 11/07/2006 |
| Votes For: |
2,786,935 |
| Votes Against: |
178,723 |
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