Florida Dept. of State announces that no constitutional amendment petition initiatives met requirements to be on the 2026 ballot
February 1, 2026
BY JENNIFER CABRERA
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Today, the Florida Department of State announced that none of the active proposed constitutional amendments by initiative petitions met the requirements of Florida law for placement on the 2026 General Election ballot.
The proposed constitutional amendments, listed below with their sponsors, ranged from legalizing marijuana to expanding Medicaid and establishing a right to clean water:
- Adult Personal Use of Marijuana (Smart & Safe Florida)
- All Voters Vote in Primary Elections for State Legislature, Governor, and Cabinet (Let Florida Vote)
- Allowing all voters to electronically sign petitions. (Florida Constitutional Amendment Network)
- Amendment to Standardize the Initiative Process in Florida (Let Florida Vote)
- Annual Insurance Policy Rate Reduction (Florida Constitutional Amendment Network)
- Applications for Executive Clemency (Floridians for Redeemable People)
- Cabinet Reorganization Amendment; Commissioner of Education (Let Florida Vote)
- Establish a non-denominational prayer for public school students to be recited daily (Heal Our Nation)
- Extended Legislative Sessions (Floridians for Redeemable People)
- Judicial Discretion in Sentencing in Criminal Cases (Floridians for Redeemable People)
- Jury Recommendation for Certain Sentences in Criminal Cases (Floridians for Redeemable People)
- Limits or Prevents Barriers to Local Solar Electricity Supply (Floridians for Solar Choice, Inc.)
- Mandatory Consideration of Legislative Bills (Floridians for Redeemable People)
- Minimum Wage Shall Not Be Less Than Ten Dollars An Hour (League of Voters, Extraordinaire)
- Offender Reintegration Program (Floridians for Redeemable People)
- Prayer Back in Schools (Write the Vision PC)
- Protect Voters’ Constitutional Power (Florida Constitutional Amendment Network)
- Provide Medicaid Coverage to Eligible Low-Income Adults (Florida Decides Healthcare, Inc.)
- Right to Clean and Healthy Waters (FloridaRighttoCleanWater.org)
- The Comprehensive Voting Rights Protection Act of Florida (Floridians for Redeemable People)
Click here for details about the initiatives.
Welcome to the free state of totalitarian. Don’t forget to teach them how to salute.
If the initiatives did not meet the requirements how is that anyone’s fault but the people who put this changes together? If people did not want to sign petitions they did not meet the thresholds for tge ballot.These initiatives seem to be from both sides of the political realm so it’s not like your made up nemesis Governor forced anything here.Be glad you leave in a free state and Republic. Try again.
Bear, we know how much you like state power and kissing boots, but the state GOP has made it tougher and tougher to get amendments on the ballot BECAUSE THEY LIKE TO KEEP THE POWER TO THEMSELVES.
Try to pay closer attention.
All the GOP has done was make the state free of wokeness and blue policies. Rules are in place for a reason. Not for “entitled” people to try and change free elections. Kinda like the woke elections supervisor trying into register felons and now going to high schools to try and brainwash students. Or like the brain fogged girl running around last week to get illegal petitions done in the name of wacky weed.
Gotta love the Democrats when they can win fair they will try anything to steal a vote.
Gotta love the Democrats when they can’t win fair they try anything to steal a vote
You have no idea what you are talking about, do you?
Kiss some more boots.
Guess I haven’t followed this issue as close as I should, what have they done to make it more difficult?
“Ron DeSantis thinks political insiders should control constitutional amendment process
The Governor quickly signed legislation making it harder for citizens to get measures on the ballot.
Gov. Ron DeSantis doesn’t think there’s such a thing as a citizen’s initiative, saying that the process is dominated by “fraud” and “special interests.”
Given those conclusions, he believes political insiders, including some who are never elected, are better suited to decide what amendments go on the ballot.
“The Legislature can put constitutional amendments on the ballot. It doesn’t have to go through citizen initiative,” DeSantis said during remarks at Tampa’s Hula Bay Club.
He explained that the Legislature can put a measure on the ballot via supermajority, and that the Constitutional Revision Commission (CRC), which meets every 20 years, can also propose amendments.
The CRC doesn’t meet again until 2038. When it does, the process is largely dictated by the Governor, who picks 15 of the 37 members and the Chair of the CRC. Nine are selected by the Senate President, nine by the House Speaker, and three by the Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court.
Earlier this month, DeSantis quickly signed HB 1205, the latest legislative action to make it tougher to get citizen’s initiatives. The bill includes new restrictions on petition collection, including online training and registration, a restriction to Florida residents only collecting the petitions, and a limit of 25 submissions at a time unless they register as an official petition circulator.
The law makes other sweeping changes to the process, including increasing the timeline to turn in signed petitions from 30 days to 10 days and requiring petition signers to provide personal information, such as the last four digits of their Social Security numbers or driver’s license numbers.”
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/736945-ron-desantis-amendment/
Kevin, the restrictions on citizens putting constitutional amendments on the ballot is only one front in DeSantis and the GOP’s unprecedented power grab for the state government and undercutting of local government’s power and with ballot initiatives, citizen’s power. Cutting property taxes, which fund local governments, not the state government, undercuts them, and over the last several years has limited those governments power to oversee developments, address climate change issues, and other restrictions which put the legislature and the governor in charge of what were local issues. The governor has also used his power to remove local elected officials not for illegal activities or other public corruption, which was the purpose of his even having that power, but for policy decisions he disagreed with. Our experience with the state taking over GRU is just another example.
In short, if you like big state governments dictating to it’s citizens, Florida’s your place.
Sounds like the County Commission.
Do public schools still recite the Pledge of Allegiance in Florida?
I know my grand kid’s school does. I wish they would go back to a moment of prayer too.
We need referendums for Courts Reform, Lawyer Reform, 3 strikes and off the Puerto Rico, and Reduce Law School Diplomas Acts. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Oh NO! What will all the stoners do?
Take your meds Louie.
They will Cry(ing Bear) Lou, they will Cry and throw their Jazz(man) hands up in protest….
Great news! None of these things need to be in our state’s constitution.
That’s a lot of proposals.
I only saw people collecting signatures for smoking dope though—none for prayer in schools (any kind), in Alachua County.
The Florida Constitution is just fine as it is.
20 proposed and None making it to Public Vote is out Failure to Elect persons that will represent the People that elected them and not Blind devotion to Politics as Usual that Ignore Our Voices