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Requiring a minimum of forty percent of Florida’s annual budget to be appropriated for education.
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Reference:
Article IX, Section 9

Summary:
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Require Florida’s Governor and Legislature to appropriate an annual budget for education which totals a minimum of forty percent of the total spending appropriated in the State of Florida’s annual budget, including appropriations for early childhood education, K-12 schools, vocational institutions, colleges, and universities.

Sponsor:
Team FL
Post Office Box 261672
Miami, FL 33126-
(305) 607-6905
  Contact: Christopher Wills, 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): 222,881 
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): 891,523 
Statewide total currently valid: 0*
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: Active
Approval Date: 03/17/2023 
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Ballot Number: 0  
Election Year: 2026 




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