Proposed Amendment Number 6
Louisiana Ballot Measure - Act 681
Election: Nov. 8, 2016 (General)
Outcome: Failed
Categories:
ConstitutionGovernment Budget and Spending
Summary
Proposing to amend Article VII, Section 10(F)(2)(b) of the Constitution of Louisiana and to enact Article VII, Section 10(F)(4)(h), (i), (j), (k), and (l) of the Constitution of Louisiana, relative to eliminating deficits in the current and ensuing fiscal year; to revise the circumstances that would allow the reduction of constitutionally protected expenditures and reductions to eliminate a projected deficit in an ensuing fiscal year; to provide for additional exceptions; to provide and to specify an election for submission of the proposition to electors and provide a ballot proposition.
Measure Text
Do you support an amendment to authorize the use of up to five percent of current year
appropriations or allocations from statutorily or certain constitutionally created funds or up to
one percent of the current years balances in certain constitutionally created funds to eliminate
a projected deficit in the next fiscal year if the official forecast for the next fiscal year is less
than the official forecast for the current fiscal year or if the official forecast has been reduced
by at least one percent from the most recently adopted estimate for the ensuing fiscal year,
and to exempt certain funds and mandates from being used to eliminate a projected deficit?
YES ( ) NO ( )
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