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Florida Firearm Background Checks and Waiting Periods Initiative
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Election appointment
November iii, 2020
Topic
Firearms
Status
Not on the election
Type
Ramble amendment		 Origin
Citizens

The Florida Firearm Groundwork Checks and Waiting Periods Initiative (Initiative #nineteen-03) was not on the election in Florida as an initiated ramble amendment on November 3, 2020.[1]

The measure would have extended the electric current 3-twenty-four hours waiting period for buy of handguns to all firearms. It would take too required background checks performed by the Florida Department of Police force Enforcement to exist performed on the purchaser. The measure would have removed the background check exception for trade-ins and concealed weapons permit holders.[1]

Text of measure out

Ballot title

The title would have been as follows:[1]

" FIREARM PURCHASE BACKGROUND CHECK[2] "

Ballot summary

The ballot summary would have been every bit follows:[1]

" Extends the current three-day waiting menstruation between purchase and delivery at retail of a handgun to all purchases of all firearms. Requires that before delivery is made, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement conduct a background bank check on the purchaser and the seller receive a response approving the transfer of the firearm. Defines background check. Deletes current exclusion for concealed weapons let holders and trade ins.

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Constitutional changes

See likewise: Article I, Florida Constitution

The mensurate would take amended Section viii(a) of Article I of the Florida Constitution. The following underlined text would take been added and struck-through text would have been deleted:[1]

Note: Use your mouse to curl over the below text to encounter the full text.


ARTICLE I, SECTION 8. Correct to bear arms.— (a) The correct of the people to keep and bear arms in defence of themselves and of the lawful authority of the state shall not be infringed, except that the manner of bearing arms may be regulated past police.

(b) No firearm shall be sold and delivered to a purchaser until later on There shall be a mandatory period of 3 days, excluding weekends and legal holidays, between the purchase and delivery at retail of any firearm, and the seller receives a response of the background check on the purchaser approval the transfer of the firearm handgun. For the purposes of this section, "purchase" means the transfer of money or other valuable consideration to the seller retailer, and "background check" ways the groundwork check performed by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement on potential transferees before the transfer of a firearm from a retailer "handgun" means a firearm capable of being carried and used by one hand, such every bit a pistol or revolver. Holders of a concealed weapon permit equally prescribed in Florida law shall not be subject to the provisions of this paragraph.

(c) The legislature shall enact legislation implementing subsection (b) of this section, effective no later than December 31, 1991, which shall provide that anyone violating the provisions of subsection (b) shall be guilty of a felony. Subsection (b) is self-executing, and no Legislative implementation is required. Anyone violating the provisions of subsection (b) shall be guilty of a felony of the third degree.

(d) This restriction shall not apply to a trade in of another handgun. [2]

Floridians for Universal Groundwork Checks filed the initiative.[1]

Polls

Come across as well: Ballotpedia'south approach to covering polls and 2020 ballot measure polls

In a 2019 St. Pete Polls poll, voters were asked the post-obit question:[three]

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Would yous support a state Ramble Subpoena that would require universal background checks on all sales of firearms in Florida?[ii]

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Poll results are detailed beneath.

Florida Groundwork Checks and Waiting Periods Initiative
Poll Support Oppose Unsure Margin of error Sample size
St. Pete Polls
5/6/nineteen - 6/1/nineteen		 76.8% 17.1% six.1% +/-one.half-dozen iii,790
Annotation: The polls above may non reflect all polls that have been conducted in this race. Those displayed are a random sampling chosen by Ballotpedia staff. If you would like to nominate another poll for inclusion in the table, send an e-mail to editor@ballotpedia.org.

Path to the election

Encounter besides: Laws governing the initiative procedure in Florida

The state procedure

In Florida, the number of signatures required for an initiated constitutional subpoena is equal to 8% of the votes cast in the preceding presidential election. Florida also has a signature distribution requirement, which requires that signatures equaling at least 8% of the commune-broad vote in the last presidential election be nerveless from at least half (14) of the land's 27 congressional districts. Signatures remain valid until February one of an even-numbered year.[4] Signatures must be verified by February 1 of the full general ballot yr the initiative aims to appear on the ballot.

Proposed measures are reviewed by the state chaser general and state supreme court later proponents collect 25% of the required signatures across the state in each of i-half of the state'due south congressional districts (222,898 signatures for 2022 election measures). Afterwards these preliminary signatures have been nerveless, the secretary of country must submit the proposal to the Florida Attorney Full general and the Financial Affect Estimating Briefing (FIEC). The attorney general is required to petition the Florida Supreme Court for an informational stance on the measure out's compliance with the single-field of study rule, the appropriateness of the title and summary, and whether or non the measure "is facially valid nether the United States Constitution."[five]

The requirements to get an initiative certified for the 2020 ballot:

  • Signatures: 766,200 valid signatures
  • Deadline: The deadline for signature verification was Feb 1, 2020. As election officials have thirty days to check signatures, petitions should exist submitted at least ane month before the verification deadline.

In Florida, proponents of an initiative file signatures with local elections supervisors, who are responsible for verifying signatures. Supervisors are permitted to apply random sampling if the procedure can gauge the number of valid signatures with 99.5% accuracy. Enough signatures are considered valid if the random sample estimates that at to the lowest degree 115% of the required number of signatures are valid.

Details most the initiative

  • The initiative was approved for circulation on February 13, 2019.[1]
  • The measure was removed from the country's list of action petitions as of October 11, 2019.[i]

See too

External links

  • Florida Division of Elections Booklet: Proposed Constitutional Amendments 2020 General Ballot
  • Initiative information

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 ane.1 ane.two 1.3 one.4 ane.v 1.6 ane.7 Florida Section of Elections, "Initiative Information," accessed February 15, 2019
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.iii Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source. Cite mistake: Invalid <ref> tag; proper name "quotedisclaimer" defined multiple times with different content Cite mistake: Invalid <ref> tag; name "quotedisclaimer" divers multiple times with different content
  3. ↑ St. Pete Polls, "Field of study: Florida Statewide survey conducted for StPetePolls.org," accessed June 13, 2019
  4. ↑ Before the passage of Florida Senate Nib 1794 of 2020, signatures remained valid for a menses of ii years
  5. ↑ Florida Country Senate, "Florida Senate Neb 1794," accessed April thirteen, 2020

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