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Florida Constitution Review Commission Proposes Revisions to be Decided Upon by the Voters

For the past year, 37 carefully selected commissioners came together and traveled the state, listening to Florida citizens express their views on numerous ideas on how to make appropriate changes to our state constitution. Their job was to narrow down the hundreds of proposals to a reasonable few that could be decided  upon at the polls in November by the voters. For information on the CRC, just go to https://www.flcrc.gov/

Citizen activists who happen to be Convention of States Project volunteers got together to read and research the 8 proposals that were presented in the final report to the secretary of state by the CRC. Their view of these proposals are shared here on this page with the intent of helping the reader and voter be best informed in order to be confident in their decisions in the voting booth.

The complete final report lists the names of the commissioners and the titles of the revisions proposals. They can be read here.  The entire report can be read here.

Here are the proposed amendments.

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
 ARTICLE I, SECTION 16
 ARTICLE V, SECTIONS 8, 21
 ARTICLE XII, NEW SECTION
 RIGHTS OF CRIME VICTIMS; JUDGES.

Revision 1 Click here for our assessment   Click here for the complete revision text

 

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
 ARTICLE IX, SECTIONS 7, 8
 ARTICLE X, NEW SECTION
 FIRST RESPONDER AND MILITARY MEMBER SURVIVOR BENEFITS;
 PUBLIC COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

Revision 2 Click here for our assessment   Click here for the complete revision text

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
 ARTICLE IX, SECTION 4, NEW SECTION
 ARTICLE XII, NEW SECTION
 SCHOOL BOARD TERM LIMITS AND DUTIES; PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Revision 3 Click here for our assessment   Click here for the complete revision text

 

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
 ARTICLE II, SECTION 7
 ARTICLE X, SECTION 20
 PROHIBITS OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS DRILLING; PROHIBITS VAPING
 IN ENCLOSED INDOOR WORKPLACES.

Revision 4 Click here for our assessment   Click here for the complete revision text

 

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
 ARTICLE III, SECTION 3
 ARTICLE IV, SECTIONS 4, 11
 ARTICLE VIII, SECTIONS 1, 6
 STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE AND OPERATION.

Revision 5 Click here for our assessment   Click here for the complete revision text

 

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
 ARTICLE I, SECTION 2
 ARTICLE X, SECTIONS 9, 19
 PROPERTY RIGHTS; REMOVAL OF OBSOLETE PROVISION; CRIMINAL
 STATUTES.

Revision 6 Click here for our assessment   Click here for the complete revision text

 

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
 ARTICLE II, SECTION 8
 ARTICLE V, SECTION 13
 ARTICLE XII, NEW SECTION
 LOBBYING AND ABUSE OF OFFICE BY PUBLIC OFFICERS

Revision 7 Click here for our assessment   Click here for the complete revision text

 

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
 ARTICLE X, NEW SECTION
 ARTICLE XII, NEW SECTION
 ENDS DOG RACING

 Revision 8 Click here for our assessment   Click here for the complete revision text

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Physicians for COS

The diagnosis is clear.

We have a growing cancer today known as the Obamacare. As a result physicians are no longer free to practice medicine.

No profession feels the full force of the federal government more than physicians. The medical profession is the most highly regulated profession in the United States. The practice of medicine is controlled, taxed, and regulated to the point of being destroyed by the heavy hand of the federal government.

Physicians are told how to bill, how much to charge, and how to treat patients. They are mandated to use expensive electronic medical records. The federally enacted HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act) makes the communication between physicians and atients burdensome, inefficient,and expensive. Every physician is required by federal mandate to register with the government to obtain an NPI (national provider identifier.) We are required by federal law to obtain and pay for a license to prescribe medication through the DEA, which is separate from our state licensure.

This heavy hand of government not only oversees the largest federal health bureaucracy ever created, but by extension reaches into every state, every city, and every small town to regulate how every licensed physician practices the art of medicine and how citizens obtain care.

The treatment is also clear.

The prescription for a cure was written into our constitution by our founders. Article V of our constitution allows for the states to call for a convention of states to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government through the proposal of constitutional amendments. Physicians should be the strongest supporters of this brilliantly-crafted states’ rights tool placed into our constitution by our founders.

I urge my fellow American physicians to join with me in supporting an Article V Convention of States to take back control of the practice of medicine. It’s the only way that we can return the practice of medicine back to the intimate relationship between a doctor and patient without interference by the heavy hand of a distant, national government.

Jeffrey I. Barke, M.D. Family Physician Newport Beach, CA
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