Florida ballot initiatives

It's a renewed effort to pass a constitutional amendment to allow recreational use of marijuana in Florida.

The measure would additional hurdles to the ballot initiative process and heighten penalties for wrongdoing.

The group pushing a recreational pot initiative would need to submit 880,062 valid signatures to get on Florida's November 2026 ballot.

The Florida House approved a controversial measure that would impose new requirements on the ballot-initiative process.

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Florida lawmakers are trying to create more ballot measures even as they attempt to make it harder for citizens to do the same.

The Florida House on Thursday will take up a controversial proposal that would place additional restrictions on ballot initiatives.

The bill would would impose new requirements on gathering, submitting & validating petition signatures & increase penalties for wrongdoing.

At one point the Gulf of Mexico was called the Gulf of New Spain, and Mexico was referred to by the Spanish as New Spain.

The bill would place a number of new restrictions on people and groups seeking to make changes to the Florida Constitution.

The Senate released a wide-ranging bill that would add restrictions to the state’s ballot initiative process.

By Jim Saunders ©2025 The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — On the eve of a special legislative session called by Gov. Ron DeSantis, Republican lawmakers Sunday filed a flurry of bills to crack down...