Floor Packet Page No. 5
      Amend CSHJR 4 as follows:
      (1)  Strike page 1, lines 16-24, and page 2, line 1, and
substitute the following:
      (b)  The financial support of elementary and secondary
education shall be the first priority among State spending and
appropriations, subject only to the dedication of revenue otherwise
provided by this Constitution and to the payment of lawfully
incurred State debt.  The Legislature, notwithstanding Sections 6
and 22 of Article VIII of this Constitution, by general law may, to
fulfill its obligations under this subsection, provide spending
priorities and minimum financial effort, including guaranteed draws
against the revenue of this State not dedicated by this
Constitution.
      (2)  Strike page 2, lines 7-26 and substitute the following:
      2.  Ad valorem taxes may be imposed by the legislature at a
rate not to exceed $1.05 for each $100 of taxable value for
elementary and secondary education purposes on property not subject
to taxation for maintenance and operations purposes by a school
district and not otherwise exempted by this constitution or by the
legislature under the authority of this constitution.  The
legislature may provide for the  appraisal of property subject to
State ad valorem taxes, for the equalization of the taxable values
of that property, and for the collection of the State ad valorem
taxes imposed on that property  <All receipts from previously
authorized State ad valorem taxes that are collected on or after
the effective date of the 1982 amendment to this section shall be
deposited to the credit of the general fund of the county
collecting the taxes and may be expended for county purposes.
Receipts from taxes collected before that date shall be distributed
by the legislature among institutions eligible to receive
distributions under prior law.  Those receipts and receipts
distributed under prior law may be expended for the purposes
provided under prior law or for repair and renovation of existing
permanent improvements>.
      (3)  Strike page 3, lines 18-27, and page 4, lines 1-13, and
substitute the following:
      Sec. 3.  (a)  One-fourth of the revenue derived from the
State occupation taxes <and poll tax of one dollar on every
inhabitant of the  State, between the ages of twenty-one and sixty
years,> shall be set apart annually for the benefit of the public
free schools; and in addition thereto, there shall be levied and
collected an annual ad valorem State tax as provided by Subsection
2, Section 1-e, Article VIII, of this constitution <of such an
amount  not to exceed  thirty-five cents on the one hundred
($100.00) dollars valuation, as with the available school fund
arising from all other sources, will be sufficient> to maintain and
support the public schools of this State.  Money received by the
State from the operation of  lotteries authorized by Section 47(e),
Article III, of this constitution, less amounts paid for lottery
prizes and administrative costs, may be spent only for elementary
and secondary education.  The <for a period  of not less than six
months in each year, and it shall be the duty of the> State Board
of Education shall <to> set aside a sufficient amount of State
funds <out of the said tax> to provide free text books for the use
of children attending the public free schools of this State.  If<;
provided, however, that should the limit of> taxation and  revenue
described by this subsection are <herein named be> insufficient,
the deficit may be met by appropriation from the general  funds of
the State.
      (4)  Strike page 4, lines 21-27, and page 5, lines 1-15, and
substitute the following:
      (c)  The<, whether such districts are composed of territory
wholly within a county or in parts of two or more counties, and
the> Legislature, subject to rate limitations as provided by law,
may provide for school districts to impose <authorize> an
<additional> ad valorem tax on all residential property as defined
by general law <to be levied and collected within all school
districts heretofore formed or hereafter formed,> for the further
maintenance and operations of public free schools.  The Legislature
may provide for school districts to impose an additional ad valorem
tax on all property not otherwise exempted by this constitution or
by the Legislature under the authority of this constitution<, and>
for the erection and equipment of school buildings if <therein;
provided that> a majority of the qualified <property taxpaying>
voters of the district voting at an election to be held for that
purpose<,> shall vote such tax <not to exceed in any one year one
($1.00) dollar on the one hundred dollars valuation of the property
subject to taxation in such district, but the limitation upon the
amount of school district tax herein authorized shall not apply to
incorporated cities or towns constituting separate and independent
school districts, nor to independent or common school districts
created by general or special law>.