Constitutional Amendments/Initiatives
Webpage last updated: March 20, 2026
General Information
Proposed amendments to the Florida Constitution may be made proposed by a legislative joint resolution, a statewide initiative petition, or a proposal from the Constitution Revision Commission or the Taxation and Budget Reform Commission. A proposed amendment requires at least 60% approval from voters to pass [see Florida Constitution, Article XI, Fla. Const.].
Visit our Initiatives/Amendments/Revisions Database for current and past proposed and adopted amendments.
Initiative Petitions
The statewide initiative petition process is initiated when a sponsor submits a proposed initiative to the State for review and approval prior to circulation. A sponsor must be a registered political committee formed for this purpose. The sponsor can only sponsor one statewide initiative petition per election cycle.
In addition to other requirements, a sponsor must obtain valid petitions signed by a number of Florida voters in each of one half of the congressional districts of the state, and of the state as a whole, equal to eight percent of the votes cast in each of such districts respectively and in the state as a whole in the last preceding election in which presidential electors were chosen. Signature requirements by congressional districts can be found here.
For governing laws and rules, refer to Article XI, Section 3, Fla. Const., sections 15.21, 101.161, and 100.371, Florida Statutes, and rules 1S-2.009 and 1S-2.0091, Florida Administrative Code (https://flrules.org/)
Petition Circulators and Registration
For statewide initiative petitions, the petition sponsor can use circulators to collect petitions. Unless registered as a petition circulator, a person cannot collect, deliver, or otherwise physically possess, more than 25 signed petition forms per petition per election cycle (not counting his or her own signed petition form or a signed petition form belonging to the person’s spouse, or the parent, child, grandparent, grandchild, or sibling of the person or the person’s spouse). See section 100.371, F.S.
To register, a petition circulator must take and successfully pass an online training program that includes a test. Once registered, petition circulators can circulate petitions for more than one statewide initiative petition sponsor. For more information about how to sign a statewide initiative petition or how to become a registered petition circulator, visit the Initiative Petitions and Circulator website.
Initiative Petition Signature Verification Cost
Supervisors of Elections must set and/or adjust annually on March 1, costs to verify statewide initiative petitions. See section 100.371(14)(f), Florida Statutes. These costs include, but are not limited to, operating and personnel costs associated with comparing signatures, printing and all postage costs related to the verification notice required by section 100.371(14)(e), Florida Statutes, and transmitting petition forms to the division. A different verification cost may be set for petitions received within the 60 days before the February 1 deadline of the year to make ballot position.
Verification cost information is also made available on each county Supervisor of Elections’ website.
No petition can be verified until the Supervisor of Election is paid in advance for verification unless the sponsor has filed an Affidavit of Undue Burden with the State.
For questions or assistance, contact Initiatives@dos.fl.gov.
